Stately Fun and Stormy Exoticism: all in a night at the Barbican.

Por Professor Vivienne Suvini-Hand, 03 marzo 2014

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Crítica hecha desde Barbican Hall, Londres el 28 febrero 2014

Beethoven, Concierto para violín, violonchelo y piano en do mayor 'Triple concierto', Op.56

Beethoven, Trío con piano en si bemol mayor "Gassenhauer", Op.11 (Adagio movement, arr. for violin, cello & piano)

Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, Op.35

Maxim Vengerov, Violín, Dirección

Antonio Meneses, Violonchelo

Igor Levit, Piano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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.

****1

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.

****1

From snow to sludge: Icelandic music at the Barbican Centre

Marat Ingeldeev, 22nd February

A bewildering evening at the Barbican, where ambitious Icelandic programming collapses under its lofty ambition of defying genres and making music more appealing to a wide variety of audiences.

**111

Fine Lindberg and Stravinsky double bill from the BBC Symphony

Roy Westbrook, 6th February

After a performance of Magnus Lindberg’s First Violin Concerto by Lisa Batiashvili at the Barbican, Stravinsky’s Perséphone stands the test of time.

****1

UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s unEarth impresses on scale, not substance

Susannah Moody, 23rd January

Wolfe's climate-change oratorio, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, already feels out of date.

**111

Sir James MacMillan delights with his Christmas Oratorio

David Karlin, 19th December

MacMillan's large scale choral work offers a rich variety of texts and musical ideas, the composer conducts the BBC Symphony with unerring precision.

*****

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Professor Vivienne Suvini-Hand

Vivienne has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and is an Emeritus Professor of Italian Literature and Music at Royal Holloway, the University of London. She is the author of three self-authored, academic books, including Sweet Thunder (Oxford: Legenda, 2006): a study of music and its relationship to literature in 1960s Italy. She has published many articles on Niccolò Paganini and his representation in literature and the visual arts. She has a passion for the violin and for Italian and French opera. Her webpage with a full list of publications and activities is here.