Anti-Romantisches und Hoch-Romantisches: Vladimir Jurowski mit dem rsb

Vladimir Jurowski

Frank Peter Zimmermann

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 31 January 2023

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“mit der Schwerfälligkeit stampfender Rhythmen und der Grazie anmutiger Bewegungen”

Reviewed at Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin on 29 January 2023

Stravinsky, Circus Polka (for a young elephant)

Stravinsky, Violin Concerto in D major

Schubert, Symphony no. 9 in C major, "The Great", D.944

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor

Frank Peter Zimmermann, Violin

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.

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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.

*****

Remarkable Die Frau ohne Schatten marred by visual effects

Edward Sava-Segal, 4th September

At the Enescu Festival n Bucharest Vladimir Jurowski celebrates the centennial of Die Frau one Schatten’s premiere.

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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.