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Articles de Simon Cummings

Skin-deep and saccharine: a one-dimensional performance from Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall

Par Simon Cummings, 17 mai 2017
East meets West meets East in a disappointing display of homogenised, sugar-coated music-making in Birmingham
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The film music of John Williams: the makings of an aesthetic

Par Simon Cummings, 17 mai 2017
A brief examination of the partly forgotten musical seeds that led to Williams’ distinctive cinematic soundworld
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Pulling shapes: Edward Gardner and the CBSO triumph in Haydn and Mahler 5

Par Simon Cummings, 14 avril 2017
A concert of remarkable clarity, turning the structural challenges of Haydn and Mahler into dramatic virtues.
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Shadows and energy, ghosts and pomposity at Tallinn’s Estonia Concert Hall

Par Simon Cummings, 10 avril 2017
The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under Kristiina Poska strain, discharge energy and ultimately make magic at the annual Estonian Music Days.
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Plumbing subterranean depths at the hands of John Malkovich’s imagined malevolent dictator

Par Simon Cummings, 23 mars 2017
John Malkovich’s provocative new music-theatre work reminds us all of the power of music – in the wrong hands.
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Polish Baltic Philharmonic tackles a traumatised concerto, a lobotomised symphony and a hermetically-sealed divertimento

Par Simon Cummings, 01 septembre 2016
Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz’s seven minute Divertimento proves the most emotionally potent in a concert at the Baltic Sea Festival also featuring works by Shostakovich and Górecki.
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Romps, romance and risk at the Berwaldhallen from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Par Simon Cummings, 31 août 2016
Esa-Pekka Salonen and Yuja Wang at the Baltic Sea Festival.
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Putting a gloss on suffering: a frustrating operatic start to the Baltic Sea Festival from Sven-David Sandström

Par Simon Cummings, 31 août 2016
Sven-David Sandström’s new chamber opera fails to provide an authentic voice to a trio of 19th-century female mental patients.
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Mahler 8: Three Choirs Festival goes out in a flawed blaze of glory

Par Simon Cummings, 31 juillet 2016
Adrian Partington directs a well-managed but ultimately disjointed performance of Mahler’s most idealistically challenging symphony.
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Fire and beauty, tears and triumph: Berlioz’s Requiem at the Three Choirs Festival

Par Simon Cummings, 28 juillet 2016
Edward Gardner conducts a solemn, emotionally-charged performance of Berlioz’s radical masterpiece at Gloucester Cathedral
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Mixed messages and mixed results from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Par Simon Cummings, 20 avril 2016
The Estonian Music Days end with a recital of choral music that often proved challenging, but not in a good way. 
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Spring in Tallinn: sexy swagger and emotional devastation

Par Simon Cummings, 19 avril 2016
New works for orchestra from the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra directed by Anu Tali
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Defiant but non-confrontational: Nordic Affect at the Estonian Music Days

Par Simon Cummings, 18 avril 2016
Nordic Affect explores works from Estonia and Iceland asserting introspection and independence. 
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When Death came a-calling: Mahler 10 at Symphony Hall

Par Simon Cummings, 02 avril 2016
The CBSO conducted by Nicholas Collon grapple with the collision of love and death in works by Mahler, Webern and Brahms
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Staring into the void: bravery and beauty from Britten Sinfonia and Voices

Par Simon Cummings, 21 mars 2016
Britten Sinfonia and Voices directed by Eamonn Dougan courageously plumb the depths of humanity’s despair in music ancient and modern
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Extravagant impressions: new music and the BBCNOW pays homage to Dutilleux

Par Simon Cummings, 28 janvier 2016
Pascal Rophé, Elizabeth Atherton and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales celebrate Dutilleux’s centenary year with five contemporary works associated with the composer
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