Musical gifts from Karina Canellakis

By Mark Pullinger, 20 June 2020

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“dramatic ebullience, sharply etched and rhythmically taut”

Reviewed at TivoliVredenburg: Grote Zaal, Utrecht on 20 June 2020

Puccini, Crisantemi

Verdi, String Quartet in E minor

Wagner, Siegfried Idyll

Brahms, Serenade no. 2 in A major, Op.16

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest)

Karina Canellakis, Conductor

Denève, Lewis and the Netherlands Radio Phil in Utrecht

Laurence Vittes, 23rd January

At TivoliVredenburg’s Grote Zaal: a program of Beethoven, Liszt, and Schumann that, intentionally or not, invited reflection on long-range musical continuity.

***11

Edward Gardner conducts an emotional L'Enfance du Christ in Utrecht

Clare Varney, 19th December

The Netherlands National Radio Choir and National Children's Choir amplify the emotional intensity of Berlioz's L’ Enfance du Christ at TivoliVredenburg.

****1

Mirrors and echoes: Pierre Boulez celebrated at the Lucerne Festival

Elodie Olson-Coons, 27th August

Liv Redpath and Bertrand Chamayou shine at the Lucerne Festival in this celebration of Pierre Boulez's legacy.

****1

Williams and Cargill shine in The Dream of Gerontius

Clare Varney, 13th June

British vocal talent adds some very British glamour to the closing Avrotros Friday concert featuring Elgar's most famous oratorio.

***11

White-knuckle ride: Bomsori Kim plays Tchaikovsky at the Concertgebouw

Eleanor Knight, 3rd July

Bomsori Kim tackles the dangers of Tchaikovsky's concerto, before Ryan Bancroft and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic hurtle through Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

****1

Brazilian-flavoured Rite of Spring opens the Holland Festival

Eleanor Knight, 6th June

Evangelia Kranioti's film reawakens the extraordinary extremity of Stravinksy's original ballet score in the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic's performance.

****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.

Musical gifts from Karina Canellakis and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra