All-Russian programme raises the roof in Liverpool

By Pamela Nash, 12 June 2016

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Reviewed at Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool on 10 June 2016

Scriabin, Le Poème de l'extase (The Poem of Ecstasy), Op.54

Glière, Harp Concerto in E flat major, Op.74

Stravinsky, Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Vasily Petrenko, Conductor

Catrin Finch, Harp

Frank Dupree's Liverpool debut has the audience crying out for more

Glyn Mon Hughes, 14th May

A concert celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA saw Liverpool audiences treated to a sumptuous Copland as well as a symphony as well as a barn-storming performance of Gershwin and Duke Ellington, performed by Frank Dupree who was making his debut with the RLPO.

*****

Era-defining string sound in the Liverpool Phil’s Mahler 9

Rohan Shotton, 10th May

Domingo Hindoyan nears his five-year anniversary at the RLPO with Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

****1

Dazzling Prokofiev from Alim Beisembayev and the RLPO

Peter Connors, 26th April

In an all-Russian programme in Liverpool, Alim Beisembayev gives a breathtaking performance of Prokofiev's fiendishly difficult Second Piano Concerto.

****1

Dependable Mozart and Mendelssohn from the RLPO

Glyn Mon Hughes, 16th April

Aurel Dawidziuk and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra explore darkness and light, although the drama does not always bringing the audience to the edge of its collective seat.

***11

Paul Lewis balances delicacy with power in understated RLPO Beethoven

Glyn Mon Hughes, 12th March

Understatement is key in Paul Lewis' interpretation of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Adam Hickox.

***11

Domingo Hindoyan's warm Bruckner 6 beguiles Liverpool

Peter Connors, 5th February

Schubert and Saint-Saëns provide an elegant first half before a change of tone and pace with Bruckner's Sixth Symphony.

****1

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Pamela Nash

Pamela Nash, a Harkness Fellow, studied the piano and harpsichord in London, Paris and the USA and holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. She has curated several contemporary harpsichord music events, and was the director of the British Harpsichord Society's International Composition Competition in 2014. Pamela has contributed articles and reviews for Harpsichord and Fortepiano, Contemporary Music Review and Sounding Board and was the producer for the recently-released recording of contemporary works for harpsichord, "Shadow Journey", on the Prima Facie label.

The RLPO and Vasily Petrenko raise the roof in an all-Russian programme