Echoes of Scotland: musical postcards from Chauhan and the BBCSO

Von Peter Connors, 26 April 2021

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“trying to force it can destroy its magic – Chauhan got it just right”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Barbican Hall, London, am 25 April 2021

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Symphonie Nr. 3 in a-Moll, "Schottische", Op.56

Beamish, Viola Concerto, Under the Wing of the Rock

Davies, An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise

Timothy Ridout, Viola

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Alpesh Chauhan, Musikalische Leitung

Robert Jordan, Dudelsack

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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Peter Connors

Peter has been attending concerts and operas enthusiastically since his parents took him to see The Mikado in Liverpool when he was a boy of ten and to a “family concert” given by the RLPO a year or so later. Peter studied Modern Languages at Worcester College, Oxford and Law in Manchester. After spending twenty years as a pensions lawyer in Manchester, he retrained as a teacher of English as a foreign language, which took him to Germany and to Serbia. With the onset of the pandemic he returned to the UK and now works online and frequents concert halls and theatres in the North West of England.