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This Week’s Classical Music Reviews From The Arts Desk
The Arts Desk’s classical music reviews for this week take in a composition by a musician in his 102nd year, piano recitals, the latest classical music CDs and a sample of light music.
In one of the high points of the week, David Nice attended a superb piano recital at the Wigmore Hall by the great Russian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja. Her programme focused on Schubert, finding depth and sorrow in his late work, and tackling the daunting ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy with style and impressive command. Already an admirer of Leonskaja after attending earlier recitals, Nice was delivered much more than dramatic playing to marvel at on this occasion. She completely entranced both Nice and the others in the audience throughout.
On the final night of the Aldeburgh Festival the audience, which included Igor Toronyi-Lalic, were in for a real treat – a new classical double concerto by a 102-year-old, Elliott Carter. His ‘Conversations,’ which saw Pierre-Laurent Aimard on the piano and Colin Currie on marimba, contradicted the composer’s advanced years, surprising the crowd with its lively, feisty spirit and mood-driven range, swinging from dreamy to dancing to sorrowful with speed. Following, in a striking difference in age, were two young composers in their twenties – Charlotte Bray’s intriguing violin concerto enthralled this reviewer with fascinating orchestration; Helen Grime’s piece, on the other hand, was ineffective in comparison. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and their conductor, Oliver Knussen, displayed their proficiency with Stravinsky for the rest of the programme.
Ismene Brown’s evening at the Wigmore Hall, which began with a frightful contemporary dance display, was saved from absolute ruin by a recital of Bach and Shostakovich by pianist Joanna MacGregor. Playing in one of the hall’s late Friday night concerts, MacGregor demonstrated her great communication skills, playing the pieces like electronic piano music. While intriguing and intricate, however, Brown ultimately left unsatisfied, finding the playing constricted and lacking the texture and effortlessly expressive technique she thought necessary for these pieces.
The Royal Festival Hall held David Nice’s attention when he attended ‘Light Fantastic’ – an evening dedicated to John Wilson’s favourite composer of light music, Eric Coates. The concert was recorded for the BBC’s Radio 3 as part of the celebrations for the Festival of Britain at the Southbank Centre. There were various other treats on offer too, including Edward German’s Romeo and Juliet and the Forsyte Saga theme, along with pieces by Vivian Ellis, John Malcolm and Robert Farnon. A solely Coates programme would have been much more to Nice’s taste, however, as not all music was to his liking although, on the whole, the playing was superb and the music memorable
Meanwhile, Graham Rickson was in charge of sifting through the week’s classical music CD releases. ‘Galatansaray’ by the Turkish-American composer, Kamran Ince, with a Fifth Symphony inspired by Turkey’s renowned football club was found to be too lengthy yet its strains of a Slavic oratorio remained still oddly gripping. After the ostentatious splendor of the early music, the accompanying orchestral works are agreeable showpieces which impart a valuable tranquility. Next in his selection was André Previn’s second full-length opera, ‘Brief Encounter’, the libretto of which closely follows Noël Coward’s screenplay for the classic David Lean film. In a serious refashioning of the tale, Previn uses strands from a number of his favourite composers, Prokofiev, Bernstein, Walton and Strauss among others. Finely presented overall, the opera appears to be saturated with the American composer’s pining for the time when he lived in Surrey. Last of this week’s pick is the extremely fresh-faced Russian soprano, Julia Lezhneva, whose debut recording of flamboyant Rossini arias shows off her clear, supple and surprisingly mature voice to brilliant effect. Rickson was thoroughly entertained by her witty vocal pyrotechnics and impressed by Marc Minkowski and the Warsaw Chorus accompanying her. This CD lifts the spirits impeccably.
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