On a program with unusually slow tempos in Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony and Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides, Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter gave a cursory performance of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto.
A high impact performance of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony from Ilan Volkov and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with striking and engaging Ravel from Ingrid Fliter – and a gem from Nikolai Roslavets.
“More facility than substance”: perhaps an apt description of the music of Ottorino Respighi. Certainly on the evidence of last night’s concert, featuring the three ever popular Roman tone poems, one could have been left with that impression, but we had a thoroughly good time in the process.
In recent years, the virtouso violinist Nikolaj Znaider has diverted some of his attention to conducting. Mentored by such esteemed figures as the late Sir Colin Davis and Valery Gergiev, he made his London conducting debut in 2011 with the London Symphony Orchestra.
El primer tercio del siglo XX fue el más vanguardista e innovador de toda la centuria. La música no podía quedarse fuera de esta breve pero intensa oleada: algo que quedó patente en el Baluarte el pasado 16 de enero.
