Prom 60: Intimations of mortality

Par Matthew Rye, 31 août 2016

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“A single entity in a constant flux of timbral change and flexibility”

Critique faite à Royal Albert Hall, Londres, le 30 août 2016

Bach, Ich habe genug - Cantata, BWV82

Bruckner, Symphonie no. 9 en ré mineur, WAB 109

Christian Gerhaher, Baryton

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

Philippe Jordan, Direction

In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the Enescu Festival

Peter Quantrill, 7th September

Bucharest’s temples of culture present rites of closure by Mozart, Kurtág and Bruckner… and a fleeting glimpse of Nirvana.

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Keine Angst vor neuen Tönen: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in Berlin

Sebastian Urmoneit, 30th August

Ingo Metzmacher leitet mit Werken von Wagner, Nono und Bruckner einen inspirierenden Abend beim Musikfest Berlin.

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Symphonie des Abschieds: Thielemanns letztes Konzert in Dresden

Svenja Koch, 7th July

„Hier wird’s Ereignis – das Unbeschreibliche, hier ist‘s getan“ – mit diesen Worten endet Goethes Faust II, Mahlers Symphonie und damit auch die Amtszeit von Christian Thielemann als Chefdirigent der Sächsischen Staatskapelle.

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Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Martha Argerich in Évian

David Karlin, 2nd July

Argerich shows her full artistry, while Europe's young musicians show impressive coordination and dynamics, if short of emotion in Beethoven 7.

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Bluebeard as psychothriller in Castellucci's mismatched double bill

George Jahn, 2nd August

Romeo Castellucci's intense production of Bartók's opera reaps its rewards in the performance under Teodor Currentzis, but Carl Orff's opera-oratorio De temporum fine comoedia feels little more than a drab filler.

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Beethoven und Wagner in jugendlicher Frische in Salzburg

Isabella Steppan, 24th August

Vom Publikum euphorisch gefeiert wurden das Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester und Dirigent Manfred Honeck in der Salzburger Felsenreitschule.

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).

Prom 60: Intimations of mortality from the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra