An exciting Sunday at the inaugural mcr:classical festival

Anja Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Philharmonic

Royal Northern College of Music's M15

Delyana Lazarova

Par Rohan Shotton, 27 juin 2023

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“the Stravinsky made for a well-judged and suitably floor-shaking end to a superb day”

Critique faite à The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, le 25 juin 2023

Beethoven, Egmont, Op.84: Ouverture

Ravel, Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso

Takemitsu, Toward the Sea II, for alto flute, harp and string orchestra

Bartók, 6 Danses populaires roumaines, Sz 56

Dawson, Negro Folk Symphony (The bonds of Africa)

Bernstein, On the Town: Trois Episodes de danse

Boulanger, D'un matin de printemps

Coleridge-Taylor, Ballade pour orchestre en la mineur, Op.33

Kodály, Danses de Galánta

Adès, Dawn

Stravinsky, Le Sacre du printemps

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Joshua Weilerstein, Direction

Anja Bihlmaier, Direction

The Hallé

Delyana Lazarova, Direction

Prom 5 : Haydn, HK Gruber, Stravinsky

Julie Jozwiak, 20th July

Lundi 20 juillet se tenait au Royal Albert Hall le “Prom 5”. Au programme : une symphonie de Haydn, une création de HK Gruber et le ballet Petrouchka de Stravinsky, joués par le BBC Philharmonic et le percussionniste Colin Currie placés sous la baguette de John Storgårds. Une soirée agréable, mais pas incroyable.

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Wagner and Strauss from Sarah Wegener and the BBC Philharmonic

Leighton Jones, 14th March

Celtic legends and dramatic landscapes fill Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in an evening of emotional and reflective music under conductor Nicholas Carter.

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Watery worlds, rhythmic fire from Brauß and Hickox with the BBC

Leighton Jones, 7th February

Elisabeth Brauß excels in Ravel with the BBC Philharmonic and brings and unexpected encore.

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BBC Phil's Bluebeard's Castle eclipsed by Boulanger and Kodály

Peter Connors, 24th January

Anja Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a moving D'un soir triste and joyful Dances of Galánta. Bluebeard's Castle, despite some fine things. feels less satisfying.

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Questions, answers and city nights: Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic

Leighton Jones, 17th January

In three hugely different musical voices, John Storgårds with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra move from the intimacy of Ives to the exhilaration of Adams, taking in Beethoven on their way.

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John Storgårds leads the BBC Philharmonic through Shostakovich

Rohan Shotton, 15th November

The BBC Phil's chief conductor led a relentless account of Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, paired with Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

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Rohan Shotton

Rohan has reviewed concerts and opera across the UK and Europe, but chiefly in Manchester, where he enjoys conducting and playing percussion and piano. He works as a hospital doctor, having studied in St Andrews and Manchester, and tweets as @RohanShotton.