Mit großem Ernst musiziert: Vladimir Jurowski und das rsb

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 15 October 2018

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“das Orchester zelebrierte hochkonzentriert den Schönklang als vergängliche Pracht”

Reviewed at Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin on 14 October 2018

Schubert, Symphony no. 4 in C minor, "Tragic", D 417

Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde

Dame Sarah Connolly, Mezzo-soprano

Robert Dean Smith, Tenor

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor

Saariaho’s Notes on Light receives its Berlin premiere

Elena Luporini, 29th April

Sakari Oramo and Annsi Karttunen bring Northern lights and folklore to the Philharmonie, closing on a touch of Czech optimism with Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony.

***11

Vibrant Brahms from Jurowski, Chen and the Berlin RSO in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 3rd May

At the Seoul Arts Center, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra achieves a luminous balance of historically informed insight and modern orchestral splendour, delivering performances that feel at once deeply rooted and thrillingly alive.

****1

A searing Shostakovich 8 from Jurowski and the Berlin Radio Symphony

Alexander Hall, 4th May

One of the glories of the German musical landscape are its radio orchestras. Up there with the finest, Vladimir Jurowski’s Berliners impress in Martinů and Shostakovich, while Christian Tetzlaff forays into Suk.

*****

Old and new from Vladimir Jurowski and the Berlin RSO

Dominic Lowe, 31st August

Typically interesting programming from Jurowski gave us the Proms premiere of Adès’ Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, combined with saucy Weill and forcefully modern Rachmaninov.

****1

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Berlin RSO with panache

Edward Sava-Segal, 5th May

Celebrating its centenary the orchestra and its chief conductor proposed a programme consisting of works (mostly) composed in the last 100 years.

****1

Vladimir Jurowski holds all the aces at Berlin's Konzerthaus

Elena Luporini, 10th December

Jurowski and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra give the Konzerthaus a night to remember with pungent renditions of Goldmann, Weill and Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes.

*****

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Sebastian Urmoneit

Sebastian Urmoneit sudierte Musikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Berlin (u. a. bei Carl Dahlhaus). Ergänzendes Studium an der HdK Berlin (UdK)(u. a. bei Heinrich Poos und Hartmut Fladt), Dissertation zu Wagners „Tristan und Isolde“; Aufsätze über Schubert, Wagner, Wolf, Strauss und Brahms; Herausgabe: Joseph Haydn, Memoria, Band 11 mit Hartmut Fladt. Werkeinführungen für das Berliner Konzerthaus, das Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, die Bamberger Symphoniker, die Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, die Südwestdeutsche Konzertdirektion Erwin Russ GmbH, die Dachauer Schlosskonzerte, die Albert Konzerte GmbH in Freiburg u. a.

Mit großem Ernst musiziert: Vladimir Jurowski und das Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin