Robin Ticciati shuffles incidental music with the COE

Lisa Batiashvili

Lisa Batiashvili, Robin Ticciati and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

By Alexander Hall, 20 April 2023

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“raw, full-blooded and utterly defiant in its concluding statement of triumph over tyranny”

Reviewed at Elbphilharmonie: Grand Hall, Hamburg on 19 April 2023

Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61

Beethoven, Egmont (overture and incidental music to Goethe's tragedy), Op.84 (excerpts)

Widmann, Liebeslied for 8 instruments

Berlioz, Roméo et Juliette, choral symphony, Op.17: Love Scene

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Lisa Batiashvili, Violin

Robin Ticciati, Conductor

Chamber Orchestra of Europe brings all-Brahms evening to Philadelphia

Cameron Kelsall, 10th December

Conducted by honorary member Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the COE’s all-Brahms concert features the composer's First Symphony and final major work, the Double Concerto for Violin and Cello.

****1

Beauty from Iestyn Davies, energy from Robin Ticciati in Gstaad

David Karlin, 2nd February

Iestyn Davies shows how to make every word count in a fairly standard sampler of Baroque arias; Ticciati is a fireball on the podium with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

***11

Jansen dazzles Antwerp in fine Prokofiev with Pappano and the COE

Clare Varney, 3rd December

Janine Jansen’s exquisite reading of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto leaves the Belgian audience on a high.

****1

Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Beethoven cycle concludes

Alexander Hall, 10th July

Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe bring to a triumphant end their Beethoven cycle in Baden-Baden with coruscating performances of the Second and Third Symphonies.

*****

Nézet-Séguin and the COE bring Beethoven to Baden-Baden

Cameron Kelsall, 4th July

The elegance of the First Symphony served as a perfect curtain raiser for the mammoth, exultant Ninth.

*****

In Zurich, Leonidas Kavakos wears two hats

Sarah Batschelet, 9th April

Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos plays – and conducts – the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in works by Mozart, Schoeck and Beethoven.

***11

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Alexander Hall

Alexander Hall divides his time between London and Hamburg, where he had a career in academic administration and teaching. He reviews for Bachtrack and Opera Today, and has also reviewed for Classical Source. A connoisseur of the great orchestras of the world, his musical memories stretch back to Karajan/Berlin Phil, Mravinsky/Leningrad Phil, Bernstein/Vienna Phil, and he has seen most of the great conductors from the past, including Böhm, Klemperer, Kubelik, Ormandy and Szell.

Robin Ticciati shuffles incidental music with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe