Jurowski's Berlin portrait of Michael Jarrell

By Sam Johnstone, 06 July 2016

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Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Werner-Otto Saal, Berlin on 4 July 2016

Jarrell, Modifications, for piano and ensemble

Jarrell, Droben schmettert ein greller Stein

Jarrell, Music for a While

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Yoriko Ikeya, Piano

Matthias Bauer, Double Bass

Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor

Jurowski and the LPO’s Mahler cycle reaches a momentous climax

Peter Quantrill, 24th January

Retrospection held at bay by the conductor’s unusual choice of Rudolf Barshai's completion to Mahler’s last symphony.

****1

Explosive performances from Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO

Chris Garlick, 21st January

Jurowski took a full-on approach in the first movement, grinding through the discords without shame and only pulling back in those rare moments in the score where everyone is catching their breath.

****1

Jones’ wicked Hänsel und Gretel returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper

Mark Pullinger, 6th December

Even without a gingerbread house, there’s enough wickedness in Richard Jones’ staging of Humperdinck’s opera for sweet tooths to savour.

****1

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

White hot intensity in Jurowski’s Lyatoshynsky

Mark Pullinger, 2nd April

The London Philharmonic welcomes back its Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski for a typically challenging programme of dark Russian and Ukrainian scores.

****1

Royal Concertgebouw continues its Bruckner celebration

Clare Varney, 4th December

Vladimir Jurowski graces his return to the Concertgebouw with a ravishing performance of Mozart's Symphony no. 40 in G minor.

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Sam Johnstone

Sam Johnstone is a musician and writer based in Berlin. He has written on classical, contemporary and world music for Sinfini Music, The Cusp and World Music Network, and about the influence of the avant-garde on contemporary music in Germany and Japan whilst studying at Oxford University and SOAS, University of London. Sam blogs at www.spljohnstone.com and tweets at @spljohnstone

Vladimir Jurowski's Berlin portrait of Michael Jarrell