Remembrance connections explored by Bostridge and Pappano

By Mark Valencia, 06 December 2018

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Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 5 December 2018

Mahler, Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Revelge

Mahler, Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Tambourg’sell

Mahler, Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

Stephan, Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied

Butterworth, A Shropshire Lad, rhapsody for string orchestra

Weill, Four Walt Whitman Songs

Britten, Who are these children?: Nightmare, Op.84 no.3

Britten, Who are these children?: Slaughter, Op.84 no.6

Britten, Who are these children?: Who are these children, Op.84 no.9

Britten, Who are these children?: The children, Op.84 no.11

Ian Bostridge, Tenor

Sir Antonio Pappano, Piano

Siegfried at the RBO: Kosky and Pappano surprise and delight

David Karlin, 17th March

A revelatory orchestral performance and a cast led by Andreas Schager, Christopher Maltman and Elisabeth Strid make this a Siegfried for the record books.

*****

Rare Vaughan Williams from Pappano and the LSO

Chris Garlick, 7th December

Tchaikovsky and Vaughan Williams make rare bedfellows, but Pappano's grip on these disparate scores impresses, with the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra on wondrous form.

****1

Chills and thrills from Pappano and the Czech Philharmonic

Frank Kuznik, 27th November

In expert hands, a terrifying 12-tone opera and a heroic piano concerto rattle the walls in Prague’s Rudolfinum.

*****

Sir Antonio Pappano returns to Santa Cecilia for Mozart and Bruckner

Pia Maltri, 30th October

Now Director Emeritus of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the rarely heard Mass in F minor by Anton Bruckner.

****1

Galloping demons: Pappano and the LSO in Shostakovich 10

Mark Valencia, 21st September

Sir Antonio Pappano the charioteer whips his forces to attack the fleeing Shostakovich in the Tenth Symphony at the Barbican.

*****

Victory Symphonies? Pappano and the LSO in Leningrad and Vienna

Roy Westbrook, 18th September

Prokofiev opens Seong-Jin Cho’s LSO Artist Portrait series, sandwiches between symphonies by Shostakovich and Beethoven.

****1

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

Requiem: Remembrance connections explored by Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano