Live, Video: Find classical music concert, opera, ballet and dance reviews | Peer Gynt: Incidental music, Op. 23

Showing 5 of 5 reviews

Sir Simon Keenlyside masterful in songs by Sibelius in Cleveland

By Timothy Robson, 23 May 2019

Sibelius’s rarely performed orchestral songs received memorable performances by Keenlyside and The Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Welser-Möst. Grieg’s Peer Gynt and Strauss’s early Aus Italien filled out the program.

****1

****1

Cleveland

23 May 2019

Sir Simon Keenlyside masterful in songs by Sibelius in Cleveland

By Timothy Robson

Birmingham

Responding to the intangible: Grieg and Čiurlionis at Symphony Hall

By Simon Cummings, 16 February 2019

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the CBSO present the UK première of a neglected Lithuanian tone poem alongside Grieg’s Peer Gynt.

*****

*****

Birmingham

16 Feb 2019

Responding to the intangible: Grieg and Čiurlionis at Symphony Hall

By Simon Cummings

Boston

Utter despair and heavenly bliss: Ken-David Masur leads the Boston Symphony in incidental music

By Kevin Wells, 19 October 2017

Composers from Purcell to Pierre Boulez have written incidental music. In many cases it proves far from incidental, retaining a place in the concert hall long after the play has faded into oblivion.

****1

****1

Boston

19 Oct 2017

Utter despair and heavenly bliss: Ken-David Masur leads the Boston Symphony in incidental music

By Kevin Wells

Paris

Crossing the Baltic Sea with Captain Kristjan Järvi

By Leopold Tobisch, 31 March 2015

Leopold Tobisch's future expectations have been raised to a dizzying high by Kristjan Järvi and the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic at the Theatre des Champs Elysées.

****1

****1

Paris

31 Mar 2015

Crossing the Baltic Sea with Captain Kristjan Järvi

By Leopold Tobisch

London

An enchanting Peer Gynt at the Barbican

By Renée Reitsma, 15 December 2012

Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt is one of those works that never gets performed with all the context in which it was composed. The two suites Grieg compiled are often played and well-loved, but Peer Gynt was in fact written as the music for the dramatization of Ibsen’s poem of the same title.

****1

****1

London

15 Dec 2012

An enchanting Peer Gynt at the Barbican

By Renée Reitsma