Foot-stomping virtuosity from Martin Fröst

Par Jason Weir, 03 février 2017

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“Fröst suspended the music from an invisible wire with a broad spectrum of tone colours”

Critique faite à Cadogan Hall, Londres, le 2 février 2017

Britten, Variations sur un Thème de Frank Bridge pour orchestre à cordes, Op.10

Copland, Concerto pour clarinette

Elgar, Sospiri pour Orchestre à cordes et harpe, Op.70

Brahms, Hungarian Dances (arr. for clarinet and orchestra by Göran Fröst)

Bartók, 6 Danses populaires roumaines, Sz 56 (Arr. Martin Fröst)

musique traditionnelle, Klezmer Dances (arr. for clarinet and orchestra by Göran Fröst)

Martin Fröst, Clarinette

Tomo Keller, Violon

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.

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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.

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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

Highly individual Mozart from Buniatishvili

Nick Boston, 9th December

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields give exciting performances at the Barbican, with idiosyncratic Mozart from Buniatishvili.

***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

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Jason Weir

Jason completed a PhD in music history at Oxford University in 2023. His research focused on the development of suburban folk and popular music in late 19th-century Vienna alongside a social and political history of noise. Jason gained his MMus degree from King’s College London, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has taught and written about the history of the symphony in the 19th and 20th centuries, musical modernism in Vienna, and broader cultural trends in Europe around 1900. Jason is currently lead violinist for Sinfonia Tamesa and guest led Kensington Symphony Orchestra in their 2015-16 season.

Foot-stomping virtuosity from Martin Fröst and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields