‘Wagner Night’ returns to the Proms

Por Mark Valencia, 10 septiembre 2019

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“Albrecht... did more than conquer the Royal Albert Hall’s exuberant acoustic: he exploited it”

Crítica hecha desde Royal Albert Hall, Londres el 9 septiembre 2019

Weber, Der Freischütz – overture

Wagner, Siegfried – Forest Murmurs

Franck, Le chasseur maudit

Wagner, Götterdämmerung – Dawn; Duet ‘Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde’; Siegfried’s Rhine Journey; Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March; Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene

Christine Goerke, Soprano

Stephen Gould, Tenor

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Marc Albrecht, Dirección

Calurosa acogida para un cielo de invierno: Petrenko y la RPO

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 29th October

Vasliy Petrenko condujo con magnífico pulso y un calibrado dinamismo un programa unido por la procedencia de los compositores.

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Segundo encuentro con la Royal Philharmonic en Madrid

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 20th April

La Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, en su segunda velada en Madrid, y con Vasiliy Petrenko al frente, dio lo mejor de sí en la interpretación de la grandiosa Sinfonía Manfredo de Chaikovski.

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La Royal Philharmonic Orchestra con Petrenko y Yoo

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 19th April

Vasily Petrenko dirige la RPO en un concierto que no salió de la corrección y en el que se contó con la violinista Esther Yoo.

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Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

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Edusei’s Beethoven and Rangwanasha’s Strauss thrill at Cadogan Hall

Christopher Woodley, 26th February

Kevin John Edusei, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrate the joys of a life well-lived – rounded off to the sounds of larks ascending.

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Petrenko’s searing Shostakovich overshadows Grosvenor’s Beethoven

Nick Boston, 3rd February

Stylish Beethoven from Benjamin Grosvenor and dramatic Ustvolskaya from Yuriy Yurchuk, but Petrenko and the RPO’s blistering Shostakovich steals the show.

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

Prom 68: Marc Albrecht conducts Goerke, Gould and the RPO as ‘Wagner Night’ returns