‘Wagner Night’ returns to the Proms

Von Mark Valencia, 10 September 2019

Laden, bitte warten...

“Albrecht... did more than conquer the Royal Albert Hall’s exuberant acoustic: he exploited it”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Albert Hall, London, am 9 September 2019

Weber, Der Freischütz – overture

Wagner, Siegfried – Forest Murmurs

Franck, Le chasseur maudit

Wagner, Götterdämmerung – Dawn; Duet ‘Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde’; Siegfried’s Rhine Journey; Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March; Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene

Christine Goerke, Sopran

Stephen Gould, Tenor

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Marc Albrecht, Musikalische Leitung

Menschliche Schönheit und Perfektion: das RPO zu Gast in München

Benedikt Zacher, 4th February

Das englische Orchester bietet mit seinem Chefdirigenten Vasily Petrenko und Julia Fischer einen „perfekten” Abend in der Isarphilharmonie.

*****

Revolutionär unorthodox: Vasily Petrenko mit dem RPO zu Gast in Köln

David Renke, 16th May

Vasily Petrenko, Anne-Sophie Mutter und das Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gastierte nin Köln mit Werken von Bernstein, Previn und Rachmaninow. Neben einem Spektakel der Klangfarben hallt das Konzert aber auch aus einem anderen Grund nach.

*****

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

**111

Edusei’s Beethoven and Rangwanasha’s Strauss thrill at Cadogan Hall

Christopher Woodley, 26th February

Kevin John Edusei, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrate the joys of a life well-lived – rounded off to the sounds of larks ascending.

****1

Petrenko’s searing Shostakovich overshadows Grosvenor’s Beethoven

Nick Boston, 3rd February

Stylish Beethoven from Benjamin Grosvenor and dramatic Ustvolskaya from Yuriy Yurchuk, but Petrenko and the RPO’s blistering Shostakovich steals the show.

****1

Calurosa acogida para un cielo de invierno: Petrenko y la RPO

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 29th October

Vasliy Petrenko condujo con magnífico pulso y un calibrado dinamismo un programa unido por la procedencia de los compositores.

****1

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

Prom 68: Marc Albrecht conducts Goerke, Gould and the RPO as ‘Wagner Night’ returns