Great music but balance off-kilter: the LSO tackle Weill

Sir Simon Rattle

Dirge for Two Veterans - Andrew Staples

The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony quartet

By David Karlin, 29 April 2022

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“the male quartet... raised guffaws throughout the audience with the naked hypocrisy of the family”

Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 28 April 2022

Weill, Little Threepenny Music (Kleine Dreigroschenmusik)

Weill, Death in the Forest

Weill, Street Scene: Lonely House

Weill, Beat! Beat! Drums!

Weill, Dirge for two veterans, words by Walt Whitman

Weill, The Seven Deadly Sins

Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor

London Symphony Orchestra

Magdalena Kožená, Anna I, Anna II

Alessandro Fisher, Brother

Andrew Staples, Father

Ross Ramgobin, Brother

Florian Boesch, Mother

A dream of a Gerontius from Pappano, the LSO and Chorus

Roy Westbrook, 21st April

Giving their 27th performance of the oratorio, the London Symphony Chorus excel as angelic angels and demonic demons.

****1

Pappano and the LSO: a thrilling collision between heaven and hell

Charlotte Gardner, 16th April

Vilde Frang joins Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican for transcendent Korngold alongside darker fare.

****1

Han Kang’s The White Book takes on a compelling new life

Peter Quantrill, 5th March

At the Barbican, Laura Bowler's new work for Barbara Hannigan translates Han Kang's novel into a soundscape of icy stillness

****1

A curious evening from Noseda, Kopatchinskaja and the LSO

Mark Valencia, 26th February

Good, bad, but never ugly, a curious evening unfolds at the Barbican, inspired at times, ill-judged in places.

***11

Borodin steps into the symphonic limelight: Noseda and the LSO

Mark Pullinger, 15th February

Seong-Jin Cho continues his Artist Portrait series with the LSO by performing Chopin's poetic Second Piano Concerto.

****1

Rattle and the LSO sell a travel package to Hungary and Spain

Roy Westbrook, 18th January

Opening her LSO Artist Portrait series, Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Béla Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto before Rattle and the LSO whisk the audience to Falla’s Andalusia.

****1

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David Karlin

David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link.

Great music but balance off-kilter: Rattle and the LSO tackle Kurt Weill