Tag: London Symphony Orchestra
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Review – Edinburgh International Festival: London Symphony Orchestra play Korngold’s Violin Concerto and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony
Vilde Frang’s Korngold shone with unbroken lyricism and cinematic colour; Vaughan Williams’ vast Sea Symphony impresses in scale and execution, even if its emotional heart remains elusive.
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Review – Edinburgh International Festival: London Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven 5 and Shostakovich 10
Where Beethoven’s Fifth brought moments of elegance and balance, some fortissimos felt too big and lacked clarity. Shostakovich’s Tenth was the evening’s triumph — precision, drama, and vividly drawn storytelling, including searing brass and velvety-padded strings.
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Review – Wynton Marsalis’s entertaining Trumpet Concerto makes for a captivating listen
Marsalis’s entertaining new work is exactly what classical needs right now
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Violinist Leia Zhu wows the Trafalgar Square audience at the BMW Classics LSO concert
Pleasingly straightforward and unfussy pops concert in Trafalgar Square featuring young talent from Newcastle and East London.
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London Symphony Orchestra plays first public performance at Barbican Concert Hall
“We’re all very excited and very emotional,” said Rattle referring to the orchestra behind him.
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London Symphony Orchestra announce new Chief Conductor Antonio Pappano to start September 2024
LSO has a new Chief Conductor from September 2024. Sir Antonio Pappano will take on the new role after he steps down from his Royal Opera House Music Directorship in July 2024, the LSO announced today.
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Rattle, a trade deal gone wrong, and music’s managed decline
It’s all going to shit. Like everyone said it would.
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Perfection
I’ve been a little restless today. I haven’t been able to put my finger on why exactly. Not until now. I’ve wanted to write (since watching last nights Proms gig with the LSO) but couldn’t. So I read instead (about Vaughan Williams and the British perception of music and landscapes). Then I read Gretchen Ruben…
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BBC Proms 2019 – 11: Sheku’s Elgar Cello Concerto and Dieter Amman’s Piano Concerto
The crazy perfection of Dieter Ammann’s piano concerto, Sheku’s much-heralded performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, and what happened when I bumped into a Proms commentator
