Bach and Beyond

By Alan Coady, 23 September 2011

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Reviewed at Lennoxlove House: Great Hall, Haddington on 20 September 2011

Bach, Violin partita no. 3 in E major, BWV1006

Ysaÿe, Violin Sonata no. 2 in A minor, Op.27 no.2

Saariaho, Nocturne: In Memory of W Lutoslawski

Carter, Fantasy - Remembering Roger

Salonen, Lachen verlernt

Bach, Violin partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV1004

Jennifer Koh, Violin

The Birds and the Bs: Bernstein in Boston

Kevin Wells, 6th October

Andris Nelsons makes no apologies for Shostakovich's Third Symphony, allowing it to blare, blaze, and bloviate as written.

****1

Jennifer Koh and Vijay Iyer in a wintry Sun Valley

Kurt Gottschalk, 26th February

Violinist and programmer Jennifer Koh finds a warm home in a black box theater in the small town of Ketchum, Idaho.

*****

The concerto reconstructed: Detroit Symphony plays Sorey premiere

Annie Nikunen, 6th November

DSO plays Florence Price's Five Folksongs in Counterpoint and performs the world premiere of Tyshawn Sorey's For Marcos Balter for violin and orchestra with Jennifer Koh.

*****

NZSO's enthralling Salonen and Schubert

Simon Holden, 9th November

Edo de Waart and the NZSO thrill with the old warhorse that is Schubert's ninth as much as in an insightful and exciting rendition of Salonen's Violin Concerto.

****1

Stunning performances of English repertoire

David Truslove, 15th January

This all-English programme artfully combined Butterworth, Elgar and Anna Clyne – three composers a century apart yet tied together by poetic association.

****1

Something old, something new, all exceptional

Graham Emberton, 28th May

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra programmed something for everybody with a line-up of Berlioz, Beethoven, and a newly commisioned violin concerto from Anna Clyne.

****1

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Alan Coady

Alan has taught classical guitar in East Lothian schools since 1982. A graduate in Music of the then Huddersfield Polytechnic, he has a soft spot for the contemporary. He also writes a Musical Blog, where the special interest is the intersection of music/language/science.