A traumatised concerto at the Baltic Sea Festival

Par Simon Cummings, 01 septembre 2016

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“a thrilling, furious gallop into the valley of death, Baeva’s bow acting like a whip”

Critique faite à Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, le 29 août 2016

Bacewicz, Divertimento

Chostakovitch, Concerto pour violon no. 1 en la mineur, Op.77 ou Op.99

Górecki, Symphony no. 4 "Tansman Episodes"

Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra

Ernst van Tiel, Direction

Alena Baeva, Violon

À Bastille, La Bayadère met à l’honneur la nouvelle génération

Laurine Mortha, 3rd April

Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris reprend l’un des ballets classiques les plus populaires de son répertoire, La Bayadère, avec un excellent trio d'étoiles Paul Marque – Sae-Eun Park – Valentine Colasante.

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L’Éloquence du muet : The Artist en ciné-concert à l’Auditorium de Lyon

Beate Langenbruch, 7th June

Ernst van Tiel, à la direction de l’ONL, et le compositeur de la bande originale, Ludovic Bource, aux claviers, feront parler d’eux : le premier de leurs trois ciné-concerts dédiés au film de Michel Hazanavicius fait sauter les auditeurs de leurs chaises.

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Mambo !

Beate Langenbruch, 3rd January

Synchronisation parfaite entre Ernst van Tiel et l’Orchestre National de Lyon

*****

Paavo Järvi and the Philharmonia: a debut and a swansong

Roy Westbrook, 9th November

Alena Baeva impresses in her belated Philharmonia debut, playing Max Bruch’s evergreen First Violin Concerto.

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Alena Baeva dazzles in Barber's Violin Concerto

Peter Connors, 1st May

Alena Baeva's exhilarating performance of Barber's Violin Concerto is the highlight of the Hallé 's American-themed concert under Marta Gardolińska.

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Alena Baeva delivers transcendent Berg at The Anvil

David Truslove, 25th January

Polished playing and inspirational performances in Basingstoke that underline the exciting relationship between Mark Wigglesworth and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

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Simon Cummings

Simon Cummings is a composer, writer and researcher based in the Cotswolds. He composes instrumental and electronic music, exploring aspects of algorithmic composition, and has recently completed a Ph.D. in composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire under the supervision of Richard Causton and Howard Skempton. His musical tastes are ludicrously broad but are focused most on contemporary/avant-garde classical and electronic music. When not composing, he writes regularly about new music; Simon is the author of the contemporary music blog 5:4 (5against4.com), and regularly contributes articles for a variety of books, journals and websites. Follow him on Twitter @5against4.

Polish Baltic Philharmonic tackles a traumatised concerto, a lobotomised symphony and a hermetically-sealed divertimento