Baiba Skride gripped the audience in Sibelius's Violin Concerto in the opening concert of this year's Sibelius Festival in Lahti, along with some rarities by the composer.
Baiba Skride has an incredible way of naturally engaging the listener’s emotions while transcending with ease the most challenging demands of the score.
Sofia Gubaidulina has always been drawn to non-traditional sounds, something which invariably landed her in trouble during the Soviet era. The bayan, a 200-button Russian accordion, became the source for many of those sounds in solo and concerted pieces. “It breathes,” she has said, possessing an “earthy quality like no other instrument”.
This was one of those concert programmes that you will only find at the Proms – a richly varied group of works by Bayan Northcott, Mozart and Zemlinsky.
Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno conducts a triple-bill programme of Russian music at the Zurich opera house, featuring the gifted Latvian violinist, Baiba Skride.
Baiba Skride and Tugan Sokhiev joined the LSO at the Barbican for Messiaen, Bartók and Tchaikovksy. It was a memorable evening that demonstrated why the best performances are not necessarily the most faultless ones.
Mendelssohn developed quite a soft spot for Birmingham, even producing a sketched portrait of the city. At the centre of this portrait stands Joseph Hansom's splendid neoclassical Town Hall where Mendelssohn conducted several of his own works, most famously the première of his great oratorio, Elijah.
Although Vasily Petrenko only gave his first concert as chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra last week, Monday’s Prom heralded this as an exciting new partnership. In a programme built around dreams and fantasy, Petrenko led the orchestra through some fantastic performances, with their Tchaikovsky especially praiseworthy.
Andris Nelsons marked the second instalment in the Birmingham Beethoven cycle with two works of the earliest years of the 19th century, featuring a solid account of the Eroica and a superb performance of the Triple Concerto.The Triple Concerto is a strange work.
Friday night’s performance by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra was not just in the National Concert Hall: it was also recorded live for RTÉ Lyric FM. Despite the additional pressure of a national audience, the orchestra performed to their much-acclaimed high standard.
This late-season concert in the intimate BBC Hoddinott Hall was Thomas Søndergård’s first as Principal Conductor Designate of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, following his appointment to the role this week. The concert featured three pieces all looking to the future, in some way: Sibelius’ En Saga, a Prokofiev Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s New World Symphony.
La Sinfónica de Galicia cierra la temporada con un intenso viaje desde la música de Sofia Gubaidulina a la Cuarta sinfonía de Brukner, un magnífico y exitoso colofón a un ciclo lleno de momentos inolvidables.
Nelsons präsentiert mit den Bostonern eine hinreißende Vierte Schostakowitschs. Als Kontrast vorab interpretiert Baiba Skride die selten gespielte Serenade von Bernstein.
Slobodeniouk retornó a la temporada de su Sinfónica de Galicia con un didáctico programa formado por tres obras pertenecientes cada una de ellas a siglos distintos e interpretadas por orden cronológico. Como aliciente, que sin duda contribuyó al casi lleno en la sala, se contó con la presencia de la violinista Baiba Skride, la cual en pocos meses acompañará a Slobodeniouk en su debut en la temporada de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Berlín.
En cette année 2015 qui honore les 150 ans de Sibelius, Mikko Franck, futur directeur du Philharmonique de Radio France, propose un concert qui lui est entièrement dédié. Quatre œuvres à la fois différentes et typiques du grand compositeur finlandais étaient au programme de ce magnifique concert.
Pour ce programme pour le moins éclectique, l’ONCT accueillait le très jeune mais non moins talentueux chef américain Joshua Weilerstein et la violoniste soliste lettone Baiba Skride.
L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France accueillait le chef russe Vasily Petrenko et la violoniste Baiba Skride pour un superbe voyage dans les ténèbres de Szymanowski et de Mahler.
