Messiaen's pianistic summit scaled by Steven Osborne

Par Mark Valencia, 07 novembre 2019

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“a single, colossal entity whose vaults and windows, transepts and side aisles all coalesced”

Critique faite à Queen Elizabeth Hall, Londres, le 6 novembre 2019

Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus

Steven Osborne, Piano

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.

***11

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

**111

Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO stir up swelling seas with Scheherazade

Robert Gainer, 4th March

In the CBSO Benevolent Fund concert, the orchestra tells the timeless story, set in Persia, of Scheherazade who, through her storytelling, brings about peace.

****1

Heft and delicacy: Philharmonia makes Lammermuir Festival debut

Simon Thompson, 10th September

Bringing the Philharmonia is the most ambitious thing the Lammermuir Festival has ever done, yet it felt like a natural next step for a festival that's growing in stature.

****1

Gardner and the LPO scale Alpine heights with majestic ease

Nick Boston, 21st February

Majestic Strauss and effortless Grieg from Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

****1

Exquisite Mozart from Steven Osborne with the Ulster Orchestra

Leighton Jones, 14th February

Championing British musicm the Ulster Orchestra also performs a seldom heard work by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

***11

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

Vingt Regards de l’enfant Jésus: Messiaen's pianistic summit scaled by Steven Osborne