Un final adéquat pour les Proms

Par Hazel Rowland, 15 septembre 2014

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Critique faite à Royal Albert Hall, Londres, le 13 septembre 2014

Higgins, Velocity (BBC commission; world première)

Arnold, Peterloo Overture (new choral version with lyrics by Sir Tim Rice: world première)

Walton, Façade

Chausson, Poème, pour violon et orchestre, Op.25

Tavener, Song for Athene

Strauss R., Taillefer, Op.52

Khatchatourian, Gayaneh: Sabre Dance

Ravel, Tzigane

Kern, Show Boat: Ol' Man River (arr. R Williams)

musique traditionnelle, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (arr. Williams)

Sherman, Film music from Mary Poppins (arr. Anne Dudley)

Ansell, Plymouth Hoe

Arne, Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)

Elgar, Pomp et Circumstance Marche no. 1 en ré majeur, Op.39 (Land of Hope and Glory)

Parry, Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)

musique traditionnelle, The British National Anthem (arr. Britten)

Janine Jansen, Violon

Elizabeth Watts, Soprano

John Daszak, Ténor

Roderick Williams, Baryton

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo, Direction

Le Barbican Hall transfiguré par le BBC Symphony Orchestra

Nicolas Schotter, 21st October

Le Barbican Hall accueillait le BBC Symphony Orchestra et son chef Sakari Oramo pour un programme d'une remarquable cohérence, à de multiples niveaux, et dont la gradation dramatique a conquis l'assemblée.

****1

Beethoven et Lutoslawski par le BBC SO à Londres

Julie Jozwiak, 24th April

Le BBC Symphony Orchestra donnait un programme Beethoven/Lutoslawski au Barbican Hall. Le chef Michal Nesterowic et le pianiste Steven Osborne ont remplacé les têtes d'affiche initialement annoncées. Un changement de distribution qui n’a pas empêché la soirée d'être réussie.

***11

Sakari Oramo and Yeol Eum Son summon up vivid landscapes

Christopher Woodley, 13th March

Yeol Eum Son's superb performances of Bartók and Finzi are matched by intense and heady readings of Stravinsky and Weir by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo.

****1

From snow to sludge: Icelandic music at the Barbican Centre

Marat Ingeldeev, 22nd February

A bewildering evening at the Barbican, where ambitious Icelandic programming collapses under its lofty ambition of defying genres and making music more appealing to a wide variety of audiences.

**111

Fine Lindberg and Stravinsky double bill from the BBC Symphony

Roy Westbrook, 6th February

After a performance of Magnus Lindberg’s First Violin Concerto by Lisa Batiashvili at the Barbican, Stravinsky’s Perséphone stands the test of time.

****1

UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s unEarth impresses on scale, not substance

Susannah Moody, 23rd January

Wolfe's climate-change oratorio, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, already feels out of date.

**111

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Hazel Rowland

Hazel is in her final year reading music at Oxford University. As well being a classical music reviewer, she has written arts commentary for the Oxford Student and reviewed plays at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her particular interests lies in early German Romantic music and in how classical music functions within contemporary popular culture. Follow her blog here.

Prom 76 : Un final adéquat pour la saison des Proms 2014