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2024-02-16 15:10:00
Batiashvili/BPO/Petrenko - Brahms, Szymanowski, and Strauss, 15 February 2024
Philharmonie Brahms: Tragic Overture in D minor, op.81 Symanowski: Violin Concerto no.1, op.35 Strauss: Symphonia Domestica, op.53 Lisa Batiashvili (violin)Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraKirill Petrenko (conductor)Image: Lena Laine For me, the highlight of this concert from the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko was the performance of Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto, for which they were joined by the equally outstanding violinist Lisa Batiashvili. Almost any few bars – the sound and the direction it took – would have been enough to justify attendance; it was not, though, necessary to choose. Its opening, a fairyland in which orchestral children of Mendelssohn and Debussy took flight to the emergent strains of a silken violin line spun with longing and languor presaged what was to come, such interactions, melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and timbral the stuff on which dreams were made on—at quite a temperature. Whatever its twists and turns, there was no doubting the musical line […]
2024-02-03 12:46:00
BPO/Gatti - Schoenberg, Strauss, and Wagner, 2 February 2024
PhilharmonieSchoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, op.4 (1943 version for string orchestra) Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, op.24 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act I and ‘Liebestod’ Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraDaniele Gatti (conductor)Images: Stephan RaboldRepertoire, orchestra, and conductor: a marriage made in heaven—or, if we are to be Nietzschean about it, in the ‘voluptuousness of hell’ with which he diagnosed Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. In this cleverly devised programme, Daniele Gatti and the Berlin Philharmonic took us through three works of explicit transfiguration, that transfiguration, transcendence, or whatever we want to call it in each case following something darker, more malign, more voluptuous and yes, both heavenly and hellish—or, as Nietzsche would have it, beyond good and evil. The Berliners followed their outstanding Schoenberg programme of the previous week, under Kirill Petrenko, with a Verklärte Nacht of equal distinction. I often have my doubts about the version for string orchestra – what does it […]
2024-01-26 10:02:00
BPO/Petrenko - Schoenberg, 25 January 2024
Philharmonie Chamber Symphony no.1 in E major, op.9 Die Jakobsleiter Gabriel – Wolfgang Koch One who is called – Daniel Behle One who protests – Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke One who struggles – Johannes Martin Kränzle The chosen one – Gyula Orendt The monk – Stephan Rügamer The dying one – Nicola Beller Carbone The soul – Liv Redpath, Jasmin Delfs Berlin Radio Chorus (chorus director: Gijs Leenaars)Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraKirill Petrenko (conductor)Image: © Stephan Rabold 150 years on from the birth of Arnold Schoenberg, we could be forgiven for lamenting this world still does not know what to do with him and his music. The most important of twentieth-century composers, he languishes respected yet for the most part unperformed. The muted tones in which even this, his anniversary year, is being celebrated – if not now, then when? – are such that it could readily be missed altogether. There are exceptions, not least my […]
2024-01-02 13:27:32
Kirill Petrenko conducted excerpts from Wagner operas at the Philharmonie, Berlin
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