Game on! Success for first Prom devoted to the global genre

Gaming Prom

Robert Ames

Gaming Prom

Par Roy Westbrook, 02 août 2022

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“if you want to go outside the box as far as you can…hire someone who has no idea what the box is”

Critique faite à Royal Albert Hall, Londres, le 1 août 2022

Follin, Loading Chronos

Kondo, The Legend of Zelda

Hildur Guðnadóttir/Sam Slater, arr. Robert Ames, Battlefield 2042: suite (European premiere)

Curry, Dear Esther – I Have

Shimomura, Kingdom Hearts (excerpts)

Otani, Shadow of the Colossus (excerpts)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Robert Ames, Direction

Dutoit met Ravel et Montreux en extase !

Thomas Muller, 26th August

Dutoit a embarqué le Royal Philarmonic de Londres dans un délice de musiques ravéliennes portées aux nues. On se souviendra longtemps de cette belle soirée à Montreux qui, envoûtée par des musiques si solaires, se transforma, le temps d’un concert, en sublime rivage méditerranéen.

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Le Sacre de Stravinsky révélé par Charles Dutoit tellurique à Montreux !

Thomas Muller, 28th August

Outre un Royal Philarmonic Orchestra London pléthorique, on aura retenu les délices pianistiques d’un Daniil Trifonov superlatif, et surtout un Chrales Dutoit qui nous livre Un Sacre du Printemps magistral d’énergie primale et de musicalité : des concerts qui vous revigorent pour longtemps !

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Brillances pianistiques et orchestrales à l’Auditorium de Lyon

Beate Langenbruch, 20th October

Charles Dutoit et le Royal Philharmonic Orchestra de Londres entourent Khatia Buniatishvili de toute leur attention.

****1

Le Bach Choir et le RPO en manque d'inspiration

Julie Jozwiak, 7th June

Dimanche 7 juin 2015, le Royal Philharmonic Orchestra et le Bach Choir donnaient l'oratorio Elias de Mendelssohn au Royal Festival Hall, sous la direction de David Hill. Une grosse déception : pas d’émotion et pas de sens du sacré.

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Edusei’s Beethoven and Rangwanasha’s Strauss thrill at Cadogan Hall

Christopher Woodley, 26th February

Kevin John Edusei, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrate the joys of a life well-lived – rounded off to the sounds of larks ascending.

****1

Petrenko’s searing Shostakovich overshadows Grosvenor’s Beethoven

Nick Boston, 3rd February

Stylish Beethoven from Benjamin Grosvenor and dramatic Ustvolskaya from Yuriy Yurchuk, but Petrenko and the RPO’s blistering Shostakovich steals the show.

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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.

Game on! Great success for first Prom devoted to the global genre