Rafters rattled: Hough and Wigglesworth at the BBC Proms

Sir Stephen Hough and the BBC Philharmonic

Mark Wigglesworth

Mark Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Philharmonic

Von Mark Pullinger, 19 Juli 2023

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“Hough launched the cadenza demonstratively, a heady cocktail of defiance and ardent yearning”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Albert Hall, London, am 18 Juli 2023

Mason, Ablaze the Moon (BBC commission: world premiere)

Rachmaninow, Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 in fis-Moll, Op.1

Rubinstein, Mélodie in F major, Op.3 no.1

Mahler, Symphonie Nr. 1 in D-Dur 'Titan'

Sir Stephen Hough, Klavier

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Mark Wigglesworth, Musikalische Leitung

BBC Philharmonic’s bold but unbalanced Stravinsky and Adams

Leighton Jones, 1st May

Balance issues mar an otherwise compelling programme from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

***11

Wagner and Strauss from Sarah Wegener and the BBC Philharmonic

Leighton Jones, 14th March

Celtic legends and dramatic landscapes fill Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in an evening of emotional and reflective music under conductor Nicholas Carter.

****1

Watery worlds, rhythmic fire from Brauß and Hickox with the BBC

Leighton Jones, 7th February

Elisabeth Brauß excels in Ravel with the BBC Philharmonic and brings and unexpected encore.

****1

BBC Phil's Bluebeard's Castle eclipsed by Boulanger and Kodály

Peter Connors, 24th January

Anja Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a moving D'un soir triste and joyful Dances of Galánta. Bluebeard's Castle, despite some fine things. feels less satisfying.

****1

Questions, answers and city nights: Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic

Leighton Jones, 17th January

In three hugely different musical voices, John Storgårds with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra move from the intimacy of Ives to the exhilaration of Adams, taking in Beethoven on their way.

****1

John Storgårds leads the BBC Philharmonic through Shostakovich

Rohan Shotton, 15th November

The BBC Phil's chief conductor led a relentless account of Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, paired with Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Rafters rattled: Hough, Wigglesworth and the BBC Philharmonic at the Proms