Jacquelyn Wagner News
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2024-04-12 10:29:00
Turkey's leading orchestra, the German national youth orchestra plus ensembles from Tokyo, Prague, Vienna, Buenos Aires: 2024/25 Zurich International Orchestra Series at Cadogan Hall
[…] the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra must be regarded as a real highlight [I heard them live in Istanbul in 2015, see my review, and look forward to hearing them again]. Their newly appointed artistic director, Carlo Tenan conducts them in Schubert, Saint-Saens, Beethoven and 20th-century Turkish composer Ferit Tüzün (1929-1977).Other visitors include the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra in Sibelius, Mozart and Brahms and Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra of Colon Opera in an eclectic programme of Piazzolla, Wagner, Bizet and Tchaikovsky.Full details from the Cadogan Hall website.
2024-04-10 09:31:00
Dramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court
[…] throughout he used vocal colour and timbre to highlight the words. This was a highly dramatic account of a work usually performed by lyrically, with Spence using text and music to tell a series of stories. Spence does not have a conventional lyric tenor voice, yet his ability to fine his instrument down was remarkable and in some movements, such as Hymn, he was dextrous and nimble in a way that you do not expect Wagner's Siegmund and Saint-Saens' Samson to be.Pastoral was quite measured, there was something hypnotic about Spence's delivery, quite deliberate with an intensity to the words. Nocturne casually heroic with Goldscheider making the horn calls rather evocative, and the string playing calling to mind the Judith Weir from earlier. Spence was very involved in the story-telling here, timbre and colour playing a great role as well as him releasing the heroic elements in his voice. Elegy […]
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