Handsome performances from the BBC Singers at Kings Place

Von David Truslove, 12 Februar 2024

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“each syllable of the title musically decorated like letters from an illuminated manuscript”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Kings Place: Hall One, London, am 9 Februar 2024

Victoria, O quam gloriosum

MacMillan, Miserere

Guerrero, Regina caeli

Perivolaris, Weaving Song II - If This Island...

Pérotin, Viderunt omnes: Notum fecit

Weir, The Song Sung True

Pérotin, Alleluia, Posui adiutorium

Weir, Missa del Cid

Weir, Vertue

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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.

*****

The BBC Singers at full throttle at Milton Court

Nick Boston, 26th February

Powerful Herbert Howells, together with affecting Shaw and engaging MacMillan from the BBC Singers, with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Sofi Jeannin.

****1

UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s unEarth impresses on scale, not substance

Susannah Moody, 23rd January

Wolfe's climate-change oratorio, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, already feels out of date.

**111

Ermonela Jaho gives a tragic twist to Puccini's La rondine

Peter Quantrill, 5th December

A new edition of Puccini's score springs to life in a meticulously prepared Opera Rara concert performance at the Barbican.

****1

ENO, BBC join forces in stunning Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Mark Valencia, 1st September

David Pountney's vernacular translation and Ruth Knight's vivid staging lent a thrilling immediacy to Shostakovich's chilling opera.

*****

BBC Symphony and Josep Pons at the Proms: a dextrous dance

Dominic Lowe, 8th August

A programme heavily skewed to the balletic saw the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Josep Pons dispatch difficult passages with ease.

****1

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David Truslove

After many years as a musician – conducting choirs, singing as a lay clerk at Winchester Cathedral and an involvement in education, David now writes programme notes, occasionally composes and enjoys a busy schedule of reviewing.