Proms Saturday Matinee 3: Camerata Ireland and Barry Douglas travel around Britten

Von Paul Kilbey, 12 August 2013

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Cadogan Hall, London, am 10 August 2013

Britten, Young Apollo

Berkeley, Serenade for Strings

Schostakowitsch, Konzert Nr. 1 in c-Moll für Klavier, Trompete und Streichorchester, Op.35

Rainier, Movement for strings (world première)

Britten, Variationen über ein Thema von Frank Bridge, Op.10

Alison Balsom, Trompete

Camerata Ireland

Barry Douglas, Klavier, Direktor

Les marteaux précipités de Barry Douglas à la Salle Gaveau

Pierre Michel, 7th February

Le pianiste irlandais s'attelait à un programme exigeant, avec notamment la Sonate « Appassionata » de Beethoven et la Sonate n° 7 de Prokofiev. Le récital a malheureusement pâti d'un jeu alternant souvent agressivité et abus de pédale.

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Sułkowska-Migoń’s Dublin programme crowned by a white-hot Scheherazade

Andrew Larkin, 16th January

Works by Boulanger and Shostakovich pay off handsomely before Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, shaped with dynamic control and visceral energy, crowns a vividly played concert.

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Les retrouvailles avec Barry Douglas à Paris, Salle Gaveau

Alain Lompech, 28th May

Dans des œuvres de Schubert, Liszt et Brahms, le pianiste irlandais révèle des dons de caméléon, qui sait trouver le son qui va à chaque compositeur.

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Estonian National Symphony Orchestra impresses at the Perth Festival

David Smythe, 20th May

Intense Pärt, vivid Rachmaninov with Barry Douglas and dramatic Dvořák on the most northerly point on the orchestra's UK tour.

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Imperial Beethoven and riddling Shostakovich from Rana and Noseda

Roy Westbrook, 6th February

In this performance of Shostakovich's final symphony, the ‘Fate’ motif from Wagner’s Ring suggested the LSO brass had been moonlighting in Bayreuth.

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Cuerdas nobles y sentimentales: Slobodeniouk dirige Shostakovich

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 22nd October

Dima Slobodeniouk dirige un desafiante programa soviético al frente de la Sinfónica de Galicia para el que contó con el pianista Barry Douglas y el trompetista Jeroen Berwaert.

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Paul Kilbey

Paul was Reviews Editor at Bachtrack from 2012 to February 2014. He has written on music and culture for publications including Culture Wars, the Huffington Post, the Independent and the Guardian. He holds BA and MPhil degrees in music from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and is particularly passionate about contemporary music of all types. His website is here.