Prom 10: Frothy and fast-paced: Ten Pieces

By Charlotte Gardner, 23 July 2016

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“innocence, beauty, pain and effortlessness melded in a way that will lodge for years in the memory”

Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 23 July 2016

Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565

Bernstein, West Side Story: Mambo

Bizet, Habanera and Toreador Song from Carmen

Clyne, Night Ferry

Haydn, Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, Hob VIIe:1

Prokofiev, Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra – 5th movement (5th movement)

Shostakovich, Symphony no. 10 in E minor, Op.93: 2nd movement (2nd movement)

Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending

Verdi, Dies irae and Tuba mirum from Requiem

Verdi, Requiem: Tuba mirum

Wagner, Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries

Naomi Wilkinson , presenter

Lemn Sissay, presenter

DJ Mr Switch, Turntables

Matilda Lloyd, Trumpet

Esther Yoo, Violin

Wayne Marshall, Organ

Ten Pieces Choir

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Alpesh Chauhan, Conductor

Wagner and Strauss from Sarah Wegener and the BBC Philharmonic

Leighton Jones, 14th March

Celtic legends and dramatic landscapes fill Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in an evening of emotional and reflective music under conductor Nicholas Carter.

****1

Watery worlds, rhythmic fire from Brauß and Hickox with the BBC

Leighton Jones, 7th February

Elisabeth Brauß excels in Ravel with the BBC Philharmonic and brings and unexpected encore.

****1

BBC Phil's Bluebeard's Castle eclipsed by Boulanger and Kodály

Peter Connors, 24th January

Anja Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a moving D'un soir triste and joyful Dances of Galánta. Bluebeard's Castle, despite some fine things. feels less satisfying.

****1

Questions, answers and city nights: Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic

Leighton Jones, 17th January

In three hugely different musical voices, John Storgårds with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra move from the intimacy of Ives to the exhilaration of Adams, taking in Beethoven on their way.

****1

John Storgårds leads the BBC Philharmonic through Shostakovich

Rohan Shotton, 15th November

The BBC Phil's chief conductor led a relentless account of Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, paired with Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

****1

Thunderous Mahler from Elena Schwarz and the BBC Philharmonic

Rohan Shotton, 8th November

Elena Schwarz conducts the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler's First Symphony, Debussy's La Mer and a rare outing for a trombone concerto.

****1

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Charlotte Gardner

Charlotte Gardner is a music critic and journalist regularly to be found in specialist music publications including Gramophone (where she specialises in strings and Baroque), The Strad and Classical Music magazine, and writing concert programme notes for organisations including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Before turning to writing she spent eight years at the BBC, the final years of which were in News, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. She holds a Music MA from the University of Cambridge.

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