Pulsating energy as Gabriella Smith’s Lost Coast receives UK premiere

Gabriel Cabezas, Gemma New and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Por Rohan Shotton, 13 octubre 2025

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“the sound world is one of pulsating energy”

Crítica hecha desde The Bridgewater Hall, Mánchester el 11 octubre 2025

Bacewicz, Overture

Smith, Lost Coast: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (UK premiere)

Sibelius, Sinfonía núm. 2 en re mayor, Op.43

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Gemma New, Dirección

Gabriel Cabezas, Violonchelo

Triunfal comienzo del Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias

Francisco Martínez Ramos, 13th January

Gran comienzo del 39 Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias, que contó con la Filarmónica de la BBC bajo la dirección de Juanjo Mena y con la violinista Clara-Jumi Kang como solista.

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Mena y la BBC Phil inauguran el Festival de Santander

Ramón del Buey Cañas, 5th August

Con el empaste orgánico y la complicidad construida concierto a concierto desde 2011, el tándem BBC-Mena vibró, bailó y estremeció. El torrente sonoro cuidó hasta el menor recoveco de pentagrama, cuajando el mejor de los augurios para lo que resta de festival.

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Wagner and Strauss from Sarah Wegener and the BBC Philharmonic

Leighton Jones, 14th March

Celtic legends and dramatic landscapes fill Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in an evening of emotional and reflective music under conductor Nicholas Carter.

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Watery worlds, rhythmic fire from Brauß and Hickox with the BBC

Leighton Jones, 7th February

Elisabeth Brauß excels in Ravel with the BBC Philharmonic and brings and unexpected encore.

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BBC Phil's Bluebeard's Castle eclipsed by Boulanger and Kodály

Peter Connors, 24th January

Anja Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a moving D'un soir triste and joyful Dances of Galánta. Bluebeard's Castle, despite some fine things. feels less satisfying.

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Questions, answers and city nights: Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic

Leighton Jones, 17th January

In three hugely different musical voices, John Storgårds with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra move from the intimacy of Ives to the exhilaration of Adams, taking in Beethoven on their way.

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Rohan Shotton

Rohan has reviewed concerts and opera across the UK and Europe, but chiefly in Manchester, where he enjoys conducting and playing percussion and piano. He works as a hospital doctor, having studied in St Andrews and Manchester, and tweets as @RohanShotton.