Geistliche, anglikanischen Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts bildeten das Programm des Münchner Rundfunkorchesters, das auf völlig unterschiedliche Weise versuchte, den Raum mit Klängen zu füllen.
La Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, bajo la dirección de Marin Alsop, presentó con su particular caleidoscopio musical un interesante programa de obras inspiradas en las creencias de sus autores.
The Minnesota Chorale does Leonard Bernstein and Sir William Walton proud, with the Bernstein Chichester Psalms a particularly impressive presentation.
Marin Alsop nods to her mentor in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, challenges the Edinburgh Festival Chorus with Villa-Lobos' Chôros 10 and astonishes in a passionate enduring performance of Shostakovich's Fifth.
The Last Night of the Proms provided a welcome tying-up of the various strands that have permeated this year’s season: British light music, the 60th anniversary of the Coronation, a host of premières and new BBC commissions, and the significant anniversaries of a number of composers (including the big-hitters of the season, Wagner and Britten).
