Total Immersion with Boulez at the Barbican

Tamara Stefanovich

Anna Dennis and Martyn Brabbins

Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Singers and BBCSO

Par Peter Quantrill, 02 avril 2025

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“they went on to play ‘Pli selon pli’ as though Boulez had written it for them”

Critique faite à Barbican Hall, Londres, le 30 mars 2025

Boulez, Deux études de musique concrète

Boulez, Notations, pour orchestre

Boulez, Incises

Boulez, Cummings ist der Dichter

Boulez, Pli selon pli

Martyn Brabbins, Direction

Anna Dennis, Soprano

Tamara Stefanovich, Piano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Singers

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Critique faite à Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Milton Court Concert Hall, Londres, le 30 mars 2025

Boulez, Domaines

Boulez, Sonate pour piano no. 2

Boulez, Dialogue de l'ombre double

Guildhall School Musicians

Benat Erro Diez, Clarinette

Lily Payne, Clarinette

Tamara Stefanovich, Piano

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.

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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.

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Sakari Oramo, Yeol Eum Son and the BBC Symphony in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 26th March

Yeol Eum Son’s Britten Piano Concerto formed the evening’s centre of gravity, played with lucid line, structural command and sudden fire. In Brahms’ Second Symphony, Sakari Oramo found conviction, proportion and a warmth that felt earned rather than applied.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Peter Quantrill is a regular contributor to Gramophone, The Strad and other journals. Recent programme notes have been published by the Salzburg and Edinburgh festivals, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Ballet. He also writes about music and musicians for many record labels including Eloquence, Delphian, Signum, Danacord and Brilliant Classics. Once unplugged from his hi-fi, he can generally be found in a London concert hall or at the cricket, and he tweets (sporadically) @PeterQuantrill.

Lucid dreaming and poetic elegies: Total Immersion with Boulez at the Barbican