Joy, endurance, joining in: BBC Singers’ centenary at the Barbican

Abel Selaocoe and the BBC Singers

Eric Whitacre conducts the BBC Singers

Owain Park conducts the BBC Singers and BBCSO

Von Eleanor Knight, 03 Oktober 2024

Laden, bitte warten...

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“no-one could ignore the outpouring of affection, whoops, cheers and rapturous applause”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Barbican Hall, London, am 2 Oktober 2024

Bach, Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden (Psalm 117) - Motette, BWV230

Traditional, Nagula: extract (arr. Abel Selaocoe)

Rajasekar, Numbers

Zimmer, Chevaliers de Sangreal

Whitacre, Lux Aurumque

Schönberg, Friede auf Erden, Op.13

Williams, Inform, Educate and Entertain (world premiere)

Bernstein, Chichester Psalms

Dudley, Decadence Waltz

Farrington, On with the show – a whistlestop tour of musicals

Members of the National Youth Choir

Anna Lapwood, Orgel

Abel Selaocoe, Cello

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sofi Jeannin, Chief Conductor

Owain Park, Principal Guest Conductor

Nicholas Chalmers, Associate Conductor: Learning

Eric Whitacre, Musikalische Leitung

Sibelius sperrig und eingängig: das BBC Symphony Orchestra in Zürich

Thomas Schacher, 15th January

Auf Einladung von Migros-Kulturprozent-Classics präsentierte das britische Top-Orchester unter seinem Chefdirigenten Sakari Oramo in drei Schweizer Städten sämtliche sieben Symphonien von Jean Sibelius.

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Magnus Lindberg und Anu Komsi beschenken das BBC SO reichlich

Michael Klier, 6th November

Das britische Orchester beweist, wie uns zeitgenössische Kompositionen vor allem in Verbindung mit zum Nachdenken anregenden Texten inspirieren können.

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Anrührende Herzenswärme: Vilde Frang in Zürich

Rolf Kyburz, 24th March

Sakari Oramo und das BBCSO boten mit Vilde Frang als Solistin eine breite Palette an Werken, von Beethoven über Britten, hin zu Anna Clynes.

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Blut wird fließen! Elektra bei den Proms

Charlotte Valori, 31st August

Wer braucht schon ein Bühnenbild? Eine glühende Elektra von Semyon Bychkov mit Solistin Christine Goerke erhellt die BBC Proms durch ihre schiere Energie.

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Sakari Oramo, Yeol Eum Son and the BBC Symphony in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 26th March

Yeol Eum Son’s Britten Piano Concerto formed the evening’s centre of gravity, played with lucid line, structural command and sudden fire. In Brahms’ Second Symphony, Sakari Oramo found conviction, proportion and a warmth that felt earned rather than applied.

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Sakari Oramo and Yeol Eum Son summon up vivid landscapes

Christopher Woodley, 13th March

Yeol Eum Son's superb performances of Bartók and Finzi are matched by intense and heady readings of Stravinsky and Weir by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo.

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Eleanor Knight

Eleanor is a writer and librettist. Her work has appeared in all kinds of places from the Royal Opera House to the foot tunnels beneath the Elephant and Castle roundabout, and she has written arts reviews and features for British papers and magazines. Having begun her working life in theatre, she switched to publishing and later taught creative writing at the University of Brighton and Birkbeck. Currently based in the Netherlands, she teaches at the University of Utrecht. Eleanor plays violin and sings, though not usually at the same time, and has recently taken up speed-skating.