Stately Fun and Stormy Exoticism: all in a night at the Barbican.

Par Professor Vivienne Suvini-Hand, 03 mars 2014

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Critique faite à Barbican Hall, Londres, le 28 février 2014

Beethoven, Triple Concerto pour violon, violoncelle, et piano en ut majeur, Op.56

Beethoven, Trio avec piano en si bémol majeur «Gassenhauer», Op.11 (Adagio movement, arr. for violin, cello & piano)

Rimski-Korsakov, Shéhérazade, op.35

Maxim Vengerov, Violon, Direction

Antonio Meneses, Violoncelle

Igor Levit, Piano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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.

**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.

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Professor Vivienne Suvini-Hand

Vivienne has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and is an Emeritus Professor of Italian Literature and Music at Royal Holloway, the University of London. She is the author of three self-authored, academic books, including Sweet Thunder (Oxford: Legenda, 2006): a study of music and its relationship to literature in 1960s Italy. She has published many articles on Niccolò Paganini and his representation in literature and the visual arts. She has a passion for the violin and for Italian and French opera. Her webpage with a full list of publications and activities is here.