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BBC Young Musician 2020 Finale, BBC Four review - poise versus extraterrestrial ecstasy
After a year s wait, three finalists serve up first-rate professionalism - and something more
by David NiceTuesday, 04 May 2021
Fang Zhang, six sticks poised above the marimbaBBC
“You have to be careful you’re not judging the piece,” cautioned a pearl-necklaced Nicholas Daniel, great oboist and winner of the 1980 BBC Young Musician (of the Year, as it then was).
“You have to be careful you’re not judging the piece,” cautioned a pearl-necklaced Nicholas Daniel, great oboist and winner of the 1980 BBC Young Musician (of the Year, as it then was). Yet while the work, Japanese composer and marimba virtuoso Keiko Abe’s
★★★★☆Decades of sexism, topped off by a burst water main. The composers Ruth Gipps and Peggy Glanville-Hicks haven’t always had it easy. But even a lost day of rehearsals didn’t dampen the BBC Concert
Warmth from other Suns. View here until April 29.
7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents
Women in Music. Women’s History Month is marked with instrumental and vocal music by Maddalena Sirmen, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and Clara Schumann. Featured guests include harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, violinist Shelby Yamin, and soprano Michele Kennedy, who share a commitment to researching, performing, and recording music by women composers. View here.
8 pm ET: EnsembleNEWSRQ presents
Nightfall! The ensemble performs Gerard Grisey’s
Stelé for two percussionists, David Maric’s
Nascent Forms for mallet quartet, and David T. Little’s
Haunt of Last Nightfall for percussion quartet and electronics. View here.
Verdi’s
La Traviata. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti, director: Simon Stone. With Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, and Margaret Plummer. Register for free and view here. LIVE
2 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Rattle conducts Stravinsky. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments,
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920),
Four Norwegian Moods, Suite No 1, and Suite No 2. View here.
2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London, Spring presents
Joanna MacGregor. To celebrate International Women’s Day, pianist Joanna MacGregor curates a journey from the Deep South to New York, from Russian poetry to an African paradise. The program includes Florence Price’s spiritual arrangements, Margaret Bond’s