Composer George Benjamin reunites with the contemporary music ensemble for an alternately fierce and delicate programme, with soprano Anna Prohaska a hypnotic standout
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Two LSO concerts on Marquee TV review - vibrant triptyches
Oboist Juliana Koch has fellow players for audience in the highlight of more filmed events
by David NiceFriday, 05 March 2021
Juliana Koch as soloist in Strauss s Oboe Concerto with Duncan Ward conducting the London Symphony OrchestraAll images by LSO
In amongst the heavy-hearted duty of supporting orchestras by watching their concert streamings – not something I’d do by choice – there are two real joys here. One is the discovery of Austrian composer Franz Schreker’s Chamber Symphony of 1916.
When I don’t speak only of San Diego do we ever get a chance to hear live performances of Ernst Toch, Vittorio Rieti, Vaclav Nelhybel, Peter Mennin, Roger Sessions, William Schuman, Roy Harris, Ben Weber, Quincy Porter, David Diamond, Walter Piston, Ross Lee Finney, Arnold Bax, E.J. Moeran, Douglas Lilburn, Michael Tippett, Frank Martin, Marius Constant, Serge Nigg, Daniel-Lesur, Luigi Dallapiccola, Hans Pfitzner, Klaus Egge, Alan Petterson, Heinrich Sutermeister, Ferenc Szabo, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, etc., etc.
Once Leonard Bernstein smiled at little Henry on an airplane. And there he goes, conducting the entire concert from row M of the balcony.