Old and new from Vladimir Jurowski and the Berlin RSO

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Gerstein and members of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Kirill Gerstein and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

By Dominic Lowe, 02 September 2023

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“gleefully excessive, with shattering chords and vivid glissandi”

Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 31 August 2023

Weill, Little Threepenny Music (Kleine Dreigroschenmusik)

Adès, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Rachmaninov, In the silence of the secret night (V molchan'ji nochi tajnoj), Op.4 no.3 (trans. Gerstein)

Rachmaninov, Symphony no. 3 in A minor, Op.44

Rachmaninov, Prelude in C sharp minor for piano, Op.3 no.2 (orch. Wood)

Kirill Gerstein, Piano

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor

Saariaho’s Notes on Light receives its Berlin premiere

Elena Luporini, 29th April

Sakari Oramo and Annsi Karttunen bring Northern lights and folklore to the Philharmonie, closing on a touch of Czech optimism with Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony.

***11

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

A searing Shostakovich 8 from Jurowski and the Berlin Radio Symphony

Alexander Hall, 4th May

One of the glories of the German musical landscape are its radio orchestras. Up there with the finest, Vladimir Jurowski’s Berliners impress in Martinů and Shostakovich, while Christian Tetzlaff forays into Suk.

*****

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Berlin RSO with panache

Edward Sava-Segal, 5th May

Celebrating its centenary the orchestra and its chief conductor proposed a programme consisting of works (mostly) composed in the last 100 years.

****1

Vladimir Jurowski holds all the aces at Berlin's Konzerthaus

Elena Luporini, 10th December

Jurowski and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra give the Konzerthaus a night to remember with pungent renditions of Goldmann, Weill and Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes.

*****

Remarkable Die Frau ohne Schatten marred by visual effects

Edward Sava-Segal, 4th September

At the Enescu Festival n Bucharest Vladimir Jurowski celebrates the centennial of Die Frau one Schatten’s premiere.

****1

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Dominic Lowe

Dominic Lowe recently completed a degree in Classics, and one of his great interests is the reception of Greece and Rome in opera. A regular opera-goer since his very early teens, he is particularly keen on the hidden operatic gems of the 19th century. He is largely based in the South of England.

Old and new from Vladimir Jurowski and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin at the Proms