Thought-provoking Shostakovich

By David Renke, 13 February 2016

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“an ear-splitting climax that seemed to press the listener into their seat with expressive vehemence”

Reviewed at Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich on 11 February 2016

Martinů, Memorial to Lidice, H 296

Shostakovich, Symphony no. 7 in C major, "Leningrad" Op.60

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mariss Jansons, Conductor

Vivid Janáček and flowing Bruckner from Rattle and the BRSO

Roy Westbrook, 12th November

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conclude the UK leg of their European tour at the Barbican, pairing Janáček’s Taras Bulba with Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.

*****

Sir Simon Rattle opens the Bavarian RSO tour on his home turf

Rohan Shotton, 10th November

Sir Simon Rattle returns to Liverpool to conduct his new orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Schumann and Stravinsky.

*****

Rattle and the BRSO offer a glimmer of hope in epic Mahler 6

Nick Boston, 6th September

Stunning orchestral colour from the BRSO, with command and total coherency from Sir Simon Rattle in Mahler's “Tragic” Symphony.

*****

Adès and Bruckner: Rattle and his Bavarians arrive at the Proms

Roy Westbrook, 5th September

Sir Simon Rattle awards Thomas Adès a Royal Philharmonic Society medal during the first visit this summer of the BRSO to the BBC Proms.

****1

Rattle and the Bavarian RSO return to Carnegie Hall

Susan Stempleski, 3rd May

Winding up his inaugural tour with the BRSO, new Chief Conductor Sir Simon Rattle delivered a superbly performed program of Wagner, Adès and Beethoven.

****1

Sir Simon Rattle brings the BRSO to Philadelphia in Mahler 6

Cameron Kelsall, 1st May

After an eight-year absence, Rattle returned to deliver the kind of Mahler performance only he can offer: probingly intelligent and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

*****

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David Renke

David Renke, geboren in München, hat Musikwissenschaft an der Universität zu Köln studiert, wechselte dann zum Studiengang Medien und Kommunikation an die Universität Passau. Er spielt Klavier, Gitarre und ist als Sänger in verschiedenen Chören in Süddeutschland tätig. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt bei der Musik des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.

BRSO and Mariss Jansons present thought-provoking Shostakovich