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Tag Archives: BBCSO
A haunting, poignant Proms opener from the BBCSO and Sakari Oramo
Prom 1: Sol Gabetta; BBCSO/Sakari Oramo **** Royal Albert Hall, 15th July 2016 At the Last Night of the Proms, a colourful sea of flags billow in the Arena of the Royal Albert Hall. For the First Night of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Nevsky, BBC Proms, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBCSO, Elgar, Olga Borodina, Prokofiev, Sakari Oramo, Sol Gabetta, Tchaikovsky
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Prom 76: Alsop and Kaufmann lead the Last Night revelries
Last Night of the Proms; BBCSO/Alsop Royal Albert Hall, 12th September 2015 And so it ends. Eight weeks have sped past, there’s an autumnal chill in the air (though to be fair, it was there for much of August… and … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Proms, BBCSO, Benjamin Grosvenor, Danielle de Niese, Jonas Kaufmann, Marin Alsop, Pärt, Richard Strauss, Shostakovich
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Prom 58 “The silence speaks”: A gripping Kullervo
Sibelius: BBCSO/Oramo **** Royal Albert Hall, 29th August 2015 After a lacklustre trio of concerts traversing the seven symphonies, Sibelius’ 150th anniversary celebrations at the Proms peaked with a gripping encounter with Kullervo, his early, category-defying epic based on the … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Proms, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBCSO, Johanna Rusanen-Kartano, Kullervo, Polytech Choir, Sakari Oramo, Sibelius, Waltteri Torikka
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Prom 43: Saturation point as Vänskä draws Sibelius cycle to a close
Sibelius: BBCSO/Vänskä *** Royal Albert Hall, 17th August 2015 For the third and final leg of the Proms Sibelius symphony marathon, the baton was passed to Osmo Vänskä, with a change of orchestra from the BBC Scottish to the BBC … Continue reading
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Prom 18: Bychkov and the BBCSO conquer the Leningrad Symphony in style
Mozart/Shostakovich: BBCSO/Bychkov **** Royal Albert Hall, 31st July 2015 Let’s not beat about the bush: the BBC Symphony Orchestra wouldn’t rank among my top ten orchestras in the world. It’s a dab hand at contemporary music, a staple of its … Continue reading
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Tagged BBCSO, Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Semyon Bychkov
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