Highly individual Mozart from Buniatishvili

Par Nick Boston, 10 décembre 2024

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“Buniatishvili’s Mozart was somewhat mystifying, and certainly very individual”

Critique faite à Barbican Hall, Londres, le 9 décembre 2024

Mozart, Don Giovanni, K527: Ouverture

Mozart, Concerto pour piano no. 23 en la majeur, K488

Debussy, Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune

Mendelssohn, Les Hébrides (ou La Grotte de Fingal), Op.26

Haydn, Symphonie no. 104 en ré majeur « Londres »

Sibelius, Belshazzar's Feast: nocturne, Op.51

Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Purcell et Locke s’égarent à St Martin in the Fields

Philippe Ramin, 22nd April

La rencontre entre John Butt et l'Academy of St Martin in the Fields est un rendez-vous manqué, à peine rattrapé par la belle interprétation de pièces d'Errollyn Wallen.

**111

Julia Fischer au Victoria Hall

Thomas Muller, 23rd April

Soirée contrastée ce jeudi soir, avec l’Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields qui nous proposait le Concerto pour violon de Haydn, le Concerto pour violon et piano en ré mineur de Mendelssohn et La Nuit transfigurée de Schönberg, sous la direction de Julia Fischer.

****1

Joshua Bell and the ASMF thrill in Schumann and Brahms

Mark Valencia, 20th January

At Cadogan Hall, Bell’s account of Robert Schumann’s Spring Symphony is as sunny an interpretation as you’re likely to hear.

****1

A snowbound evening with Joshua Bell: comfort and unease in Hamburg

Mengguang Huang, 8th January

Amid snowbound Hamburg, Joshua Bell leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields with warmth and lyricism, though Brahms’ concerto reveals limits, while Schumann’s symphony fully blossoms.

***11

Handel's Messiah overpowered by massed forces at the Proms

Nick Boston, 7th September

Massed choral forces, a strong solo line up and expanded orchestral forces overpower Handel at the end of the BBC Proms Choral Day.

***11

Depth and delivery: Joshua Bell and the ASMF in San Francisco

Lois Silverstein, 7th April

On a tour of the United States, Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields perform Mendelssohn, Schumann and Vince Mendoza in Davies Symphony Hall.

*****

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Nick Boston

Nick has an MA in Music, specialising in performance and repertoire. His particular passions are choral music, chamber music and opera, with a particular interest in early music. He sings in a number of choirs in the south east of England, plays the piano and occasionally dusts off the violin. He writes about music here.