Hertford Bruckner Orchestra rise to the challenge of Bruckner's Eighth

A rare performance of Bruckner's Overture in G minor introduces luminous Wagner and lively Beethoven from the Hertford Bruckner Orchestra. 

The refurbishment of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, has been completed and it is now, once again, a glorious concert venue, well suited to the performance of a Bruckner symphony. The audience sit in the nave, the orchestra in front of them with the substantial stone organ screen that separates the nave from the chancel as an evocative backdrop.

A rare performance of Bruckner's Overture in G minor introduces luminous Wagner and lively Beethoven from the Hertford Bruckner Orchestra. 

The refurbishment of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, has been completed and it is now, once again, a glorious concert venue, well suited to the performance of a Bruckner symphony. The audience sit in the nave, the orchestra in front of them with the substantial stone organ screen that separates the nave from the chancel as an evocative backdrop.

Le chef italien insuffle une âme dans chacun des quatre mouvements de la Symphonie Manfred de Tchaïkovski, tandis que la pianiste russe joue les diablotins grâce à un jeu d’une précision millimétrée dans Rachmaninov.

Dans un récital intelligemment construit, associant Scarlatti et Ravel puis Schubert et Chopin, le pianiste a montré l'étendue de ses qualités digitales mais l'ensemble a manqué de poésie et de cohérence.