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BPO/Petrenko - Schoenberg, 25 January 2024
[…] I heard at the Proms, at the Royal Albery Hall, indeed in London, were Schoenberg’s. An attempt at comparison would be pointless: I cannot remember much other than that, even then, it impressed me greatly. But this is therefore a work with which I have lived for a while, and of which I have heard a number of fine performances since that CBSO Prom with Simon Rattle (and Maurizio Pollini), one next door at the Kammermusiksaal included (from members of this same orchestra as the Scharoun Ensemble and Pierre Boulez). Today’s Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko have little to fear from even the most exalted comparisons, but it is better simply to consider their performance on its own terms. In some ways the most conservative – in the proper rather than the debased, contemporary sense – of revolutionaries and surely the most revolutionary of conservatives, Schoenberg stands Janus-faced, that historical […]
2023-12-12 12:45:00
Mayer/Berliner Barock Solisten/Goltz - JCF Bach, CPE Bach, JS Bach, and Johann Christoph Bach, 11 December 2023
Kammermusiksaal Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach: Sinfonia in D minor, WFV 1/3 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (arr. Albrecht Mayer and Matthias Spindler): Oboe Concerto in G major (after harpsichord concerto, Wq 9) Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no.3 in G major, BWV 1048 (early version) Johann Christoph Bach (arr. Spindler): Lamento: Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte CPE Bach: Symphony in E-flat major for strings, Wq 122/2 JS Bach: Oboe d’amore concerto in A major, BWV 1055R Albrecht Mayer (oboe, oboe d’amore, English horn)Berliner Barock SolistenGottfried von der Goltz (violin, director) It is always time for Bach, likewise for the Bach family, but some times seem still more so than others. Advent is surely one of them, and this Advent seems all the more necessary than ever as a source of hope and light when sorely needed. Here, members of the Berlin Philharmonic, in their guise as the Berliner Barock Solisten, […]
2023-10-25 12:17:00
Kammermusiksaal Beethoven: Overture: Coriolan, op.62 Mozart: Piano Concerto no.21 in C major, KV 467 Haydn: Symphony no.98 in B-flat major Jan Lisiecki (piano)Chamber Orchestra of EuropeAndrew Manze (conductor) In some ways, this concert proved a mixed bag, but it was well planned and it came right where ultimately it mattered. Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture was the weakest of the three performances. The symphonic Beethoven continues to elude not only, it seems, the grasp of most though not all contemporary conductors; this seems often to hold for audiences too, seemingly unaware as they lap up the latest fads of what they are missing. Was ever there a time when we needed Beethoven more? Not since the 1940s when, ironically, such music seemed better able to speak. Listen to Furtwängler in this overture, and the tragic impulse will never have felt more immanent. Alas, justified postwar suspicion of totalities has now degenerated into […]
2023-10-20 12:00:00
Pierre Boulez Saal Ligeti: String Quartet no.1, ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ Lachenmann: String Quartet no.3, ‘Grido’ Brahms: String Quartet no.2 in A minor, op.51 no.2 Yun-Peng Zhao, Léo Marillier (violins)Franck Chevalier (viola)Alexis Descharmes (cello) Another splendid string quartet recital in Berlin, to rival or better to complement that I heard last week in a different venue, the Philharmonie’s Kammermusiksaal, from the Quatuor Ébène. One of the mysteries of the musical world is the seeming inability of French symphony orchestras to match those who might be their peers in German- and English-speaking countries. (In some ways, French opera orchestras seem to fare better.) One explanation I have often heard lies in French conservatoire training, where orchestral performance plays little or no role, neglected in favour of a more or less exclusive focus on solo and chamber playing. That may or may not be the case; certainly no one has ever claimed France lacked […]
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