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Tag Archives: Sakari Oramo
Alwyn’s Miss Julie rescued from the operatic desert
Alwyn: Miss Julie Oramo/ BBCSO, Barbican, 3rd october 2019 “Crazy, utterly crazy!” No, not Miss Julie’s outrageous behaviour, dancing and cavorting with the servants on Midsummer’s Eve, but that William Alwyn’s operatic take on August Strindberg’s play could have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Alwyn, Anna Patalong, BBCSO, Benedict Nelson, Kenneth Richardson, Miss Julie, Rosie Aldridge, Sakari Oramo, Samuel Sakker
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Five Telegrams and a Harbinger of War from the BBCSO and Sakari Oramo
Prom 1: BBCSO/ Oramo **** Royal Albert Hall, 13th July 2018 This year, the BBC Proms season marks centenaries such as the birth of Leonard Bernstein and the death of Claude Debussy, but it was something non-musical – the end of the … Continue reading
Prom 51: Hearty Elgar from Oramo and the BBCSO
BBCSO/ Oramo *** Prom 51, Royal Albert Hall, 22nd August 2017 Is traditional English pub grub popular in Helsinki? Perhaps Sakari Oramo got a taste for it during his Birmingham years for there was something “stout and steaky” – to borrow the … Continue reading
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Tagged BBCSO, Elgar, Javier Perianes, Saint-Saëns, Sakari Oramo, Sibelius
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Age cannot wither her: Cleopatra reigns in sumptuous Florent Schmitt score
Schmitt: Antoine et Cléopâtre ***** BBCSO/Oramo, Barbican, 4th October 2016 The glut of Shakespeare400 celebrations have seen the usual suspects wheeled out in musical celebration of the Bard – Mendelssohn’s Dream, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Verdi’s Falstaff leading the pack. … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine et Cléopâtre, BBCSO, Florent Schmitt, Iqbal Khan, Sakari Oramo
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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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