Fiesta! A celebration of Latin American music with the RLPO

Pacho Flores and Grahams Johns

Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Pacho Flores, Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

By Peter Connors, 09 July 2023

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“Johns is retiring from the RLPO after an amazing 40 years – what a way to finish!”

Reviewed at Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool on 8 July 2023

Castellanos, Santa Cruz de Pacairigua

Estévez, Mediodía en el Llano

Ortiz, Altar de Bronce, for trumpet and orchestra (UK premiere)

Carreño, Margariteña

Sierra, Salseando, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra

Ginastera, Dance suite from the ballet Estancia, Op.8a

Márquez, Conga del Fuego Nuevo

Pacho Flores, Trumpet

Graham Johns, Percussion

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Domingo Hindoyan, Conductor

Paul Lewis balances delicacy with power in understated RLPO Beethoven

Glyn Mon Hughes, 12th March

Understatement is key in Paul Lewis' interpretation of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Adam Hickox.

***11

Domingo Hindoyan's warm Bruckner 6 beguiles Liverpool

Peter Connors, 5th February

Schubert and Saint-Saëns provide an elegant first half before a change of tone and pace with Bruckner's Sixth Symphony.

****1

Sidorova mesmerises Liverpool with Tabakova’s Accordion Concerto

Glyn Mon Hughes, 22nd January

An unusual evening of orchestral virtuosity and an ear-opening adventure with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Andris Poga.

****1

Lozakovich, Foster and the RLPO: glorious Bruch and Tchaikovsky

Peter Connors, 4th December

Daniel Lozakovich captivated the audience in Liverpool with his Bruch; Lawrence Foster conducted the RLPO in superb performances of less familiar Liszt and Tchaikovsky.

*****

Hindoyan and Hough bring a new dream team to Liverpool

Glyn Mon Hughes, 27th November

Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto comes alive as Stephen Hough joins Domingo Hindoyan and the RLPO in an explosive performance of this dramatic work.

*****

Vasily Petrenko brings precision and power to Shostakovich’s Leningrad

Leighton Jones, 19th October

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s former Chief Conductor returns for a concert of mostly Russian repertoire.

****1

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Peter Connors

Peter has been attending concerts and operas enthusiastically since his parents took him to see The Mikado in Liverpool when he was a boy of ten and to a “family concert” given by the RLPO a year or so later. Peter studied Modern Languages at Worcester College, Oxford and Law in Manchester. After spending twenty years as a pensions lawyer in Manchester, he retrained as a teacher of English as a foreign language, which took him to Germany and to Serbia. With the onset of the pandemic he returned to the UK and now works online and frequents concert halls and theatres in the North West of England.

Fiesta! A celebration of Latin American music with the RLPO and Hindoyan