What larks! Pekka Kuusisto and the Finnish RSO at the Proms

Pekka Kuusisto and the Finnish RSO

Nicholas Collon

Pekka Kuusisto greets the Prommers

Par Mark Pullinger, 26 août 2022

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“twitchers in the Gallery may have struggled to identify this lark at all”

Critique faite à Royal Albert Hall, Londres, le 26 août 2022

Debussy, La Mer

Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending

Adès, Märchentänze (UK premiere)

Sibelius, Humoresque no. 4 in G minor, Op.89 no.2

Sibelius, Symphonie no. 5 en mi bémol majeur, Op.82

Sibelius, Valse triste, Op.44 no. 1

Pekka Kuusisto, Violon

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Collon, Direction

Humanity wins: István Várdai plays Shostakovich at the Concertgebouw

Eleanor Knight, 9th December

Nicholas Collon conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a ZaterdagMatinee programme designed to celebrate Finnish Independence Day.

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An online Beethovenathon: all nine symphonies across Europe in one day

Alexander Hall, 6th June

An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

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OSRF, Lintu y Gabetta en el Auditorio: la pujanza del ritmo

Ramón del Buey Cañas, 15th March

El ritmo palpita y atraviesa Elephant Skin, de Jesús Rueda, el Concierto para violonchelo y orquesta núm. 1, de Martinů, y la Sinfonía núm. 5, de Tchaikovsky, conformando un crisol estimulante y variado, que aboca al intérprete a una atención y versatilidad extremas. Este era el reto que acometían Lintu y su Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio Finlandesa, en colaboración con, sin duda, una de las mejores chelistas de los últimos tiempos: Sol Gabetta.

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Postminimalistische Erstaufführung

Simon Haasis, 10th January

Das Finnische Radio-Sinfonieorchester unter Hannu Lintu beginnt seine Tournee mit einer österreichischen Erstaufführung.

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À Saanen, l’orateur Angelich devant l’Aurora Orchestra

Tristan Labouret, 7th February

Aux Sommets musicaux, Nicholas Angelich a délivré une interprétation formidable du Concerto n° 24 de Mozart, avant que l'Aurora Orchestra ne se lève dans la Symphonie n° 1 de Beethoven.

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Virevoltant Jean-Efflam Bavouzet à l’Auditorium de Lyon

Emmanuel Deroeux, 21st March

Le pianiste français Jean-Efflam Bavouzet ravit le public lyonnais avec l’impressionnant Concerto pour la main gauche de Ravel, en belle osmose avec l’Orchestre national de Lyon dirigé par Nicholas Collon.

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.