Musical Klimt: Vienna comes to Pärnu in Tüür's chamber gala

By Mark Pullinger, 20 July 2019

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“fragmentary wisps which flit and flicker, as fleeting as idle thoughts”

Reviewed at Pärnu Concert Hall, Pärnu on 19 July 2019

Berg, Four pieces for clarinet and piano, Op.5

Webern, 6 Bagatelles for string quartet, Op.9

Ligeti, 6 Bagatelles for wind quintet

Sibelius, En Saga, a symphonic poem for orchestra, Op.9 (arr. septet)

Korngold, String Sextet in D major, Op.10

Florian Donderer, Violin

Artur Podlyesniy, Violin

Adela-Maria Bratu, Violin

Robert Traksmann, Violin

Miina Järvi, Violin

Martin Jarvis, Violin

Andres Kaljuste, Viola

Madis Järvi, Viola

Mari Adachi, Viola

Georgi Anichenko, Cello

Theodor Sink, Cello

Marius Järvi, Cello

Johannes Välja, Cello

Regina Udod, Double Bass

Michel Moragues, Flute

Maarika Järvi, Flute

Matthew Hunt, Clarinet

Signe Sõmer, Clarinet

Riivo Kallasmaa, Oboe

Björn Olsson, French horn

Rie Koyama, Bassoon

Maksim Stsura, Piano

Masterly Boulez from Shibe and friends at the BBC Proms in Gateshead

Nick Butters, 27th July

Intimate playing from Sean Shibe, a deconstruction of Maria Callas’ vibrato and a deeply committed Boulez mid 20th-century masterpiece.

****1

Absolute conviction: Alina Ibragimova and friends

Chris Garlick, 6th April

Alina Ibragimova and friends join forces at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in two powerful chamber works composed at the height of the Second World War.

****1

Albéric Magnard steals the show in all-French recital at Wigmore Hall

Nick Boston, 15th November

How many of Albéric Magnard's 22 works do you know? Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and the Orsino Ensemble perform his Quintet in D minor to Wigmore Hall and it becomes the sixth star of the evening.

*****

An auspicious start to the Pavel Haas Quartet's Birmingham residency

Peter Marks, 25th February

The Czech Pavel Haas Quartet bring their distinctive sound and selfless musicianship to Birmingham, in the first of three concerts featuring Matthew Hunt in Brahms's Clarinet Quintet alongside twentieth century quartets.

*****

Thomas Adès and friends shine at Milton Court

Paul Kilbey, 5th November

Despite the frequency with which the two composers are compared, Thomas Adès’ music seldom sounds very much like that of Benjamin Britten. But Adès has an uncanny knack of performing Britten’s music in such a way that it resembles his own.

****1

Three Pieces from 1918 at the Cheltenham Music Festival

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 13th July

Red, white and blue bunting, with matching lighting, adorned the balconies of Cheltenham Town Hall, setting a patriotic scene for a concert of music from the year that World War I ended. Television presenter Julia Somerville opened the evening sat at a vintage newsdesk with her own careful research, for which she can be highly commended.

****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

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