Vivamus impress with Britten and Whitacre at Brandenburg Choral Festival

By Billie Hylton, 07 January 2013

Loading, please wait...

See full listing

Reviewed at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 4 January 2013

Sheppard, Reges Tharsis

Leighton, Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child

Praetorius, In dulci jubilo

Howells, Here is the little door

Handl, Omnes de Saba venient

Holst, Lullay my liking

Britten, A Ceremony of Carols, Op.28

Whitacre, Lux Aurumque

Vivamus Choir

Daniel de-Fry, Harp

Rufus Frowde, Conductor

A Garland for St. George: Vivamus sing Byrd in Bloomsbury

David Fay, 23rd February

There’s a trend amongst programmers nowadays to provide concerts with a ‘hook’: an extra-musical incentive to pull the punters in, or at least help performers pinpoint their pieces.

***11

A Garland for St. George: Vivamus sing Byrd in Bloomsbury

David Fay, 23rd February

There’s a trend amongst programmers nowadays to provide concerts with a ‘hook’: an extra-musical incentive to pull the punters in, or at least help performers pinpoint their pieces.

***11

Energetic Currentzis and Utopia at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 12th May

From Berg’s crystalline intimacy to Dionysian Mahler, Teodor Currentzis and Utopia defy orchestral tradition with standing musicians, spatial acoustics and an emotional intensity that breathes new life into the concert life.

****1

Korngold and Mahler from Ray Chen, Vasily Petrenko and the RPO

Roy Westbrook, 12th May

Few violin concertos soar from the first bar as Erich Korngold’s does, especially as in Ray Chen's high-wire account at the Royal Albert Hall.

****1

Era-defining string sound in the Liverpool Phil’s Mahler 9

Rohan Shotton, 10th May

Domingo Hindoyan nears his five-year anniversary at the RLPO with Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

****1

Alexander Malofeev conjures sophistication at the Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 10th May

Sitting low on the piano stool and with his head gently bobbing from side to side, this is music to listen to on repeat.

****1

More reviews...

Billie Hylton

Billie is a keen music student in London, and a former Bachtrack intern. She started piano lessons and singing at the age of four and is still doing both regularly. She sings in Ralph Allwood’s Rodolfus Choir and has a particular interest in Benjamin Britten.