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2022-07-26 09:31:00
Prom 14: Flavours of late romanticism, Yamada and the CBSO in Rachmaninov and Ethel Smyth
Ethel Smyth in 1922Four years before she began the concertoGlinka, Smyth, Rachmaninov; Elena Urioste, Ben Goldscheider, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada; BBC Proms at the Royal Albert HallReviewed 25 July 2022; (★★★★)Smyth's imaginative concerto in a rare outing paired with Rachmaninov's great warhorse in a performance of great subtlety, refinement and eleganceThe City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) and chief conductor designate Kazuki Yamada made their first London appearance since the announcement of Yamada's appointment on Monday 25 July 2022 at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with an eclectic programme that paired two 20th century late-Romantic works, Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2 in E minor and Ethel Smyth's Concerto for Violin and Horn, with soloists Elena Urioste and Ben Goldscheider, and the evening began with a Russian work from a far earlier generation, Glinka's overture to Russlan and Lyudmila.Glinka's two operas, A Life for the Tsar (1837) and Russlan and […]
2022-06-30 14:00:56
Can’t get you out of my head
Trove Thursday presents its own “White Nights Festival” Glinka double bill.
2022-06-02 01:51:00
Mikhail Glinka, born Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, May 21 [June 1, New Style], 1804, in Novospasskoye, R
2022-05-19 18:03:00
Mavra and Pierrot lunaire, Royal Opera, 17 May 2022
[…] turns, so long as one listens, and provides a splendid counterpoise—it certainly did here—to stage action that continues to surprise in its entirely unsurprising course. April Koyejo-Audiger reminded us, throughout, that whatever the games Stravinsky may have been playing, a Russian heart beat, sometimes irregularly, always metrically, beneath. Egor Zhuravskii offered dislocated bel canto contrast and complement. Sarah Pring and Idunnu Münch navigated with wit the fine line between stock characters and their light deconstruction, Glinka and the 1920s. If there were times when I missed the full instrumentation, the youth of this eternally young work nonetheless shone through. Stravinsky must surely rank as one of Pierrot’s most quoted admirers. ‘The solar plexus as well as the mind of twentieth-century music,’ he called it, hailing on another occasion the ‘instrumental substance’ that had ‘impressed me immensely. And by saying “instrumental”, I mean not simply the instrumentation of this music but […]
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