The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra is currently recording the world premiere of a symphony written by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher, one of the world’s most renowned contemporary musicians. The title of the symphony, A Line above the Sky, refers to one of the world’s most difficult climbing routes in the Dolomites.
The symphony No. 3, A Line above the Sky, was commissioned by six European orchestras, including the Brno Philharmonic and was originally scheduled to have its world premiere last May in Amsterdam. However, the plans were thwarted by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
Members of the Brno Philharmonic are currently rehearsing the piece under the baton of its chief conductor and artistic director Dennis Russell Davies.
The Brodsky Quartet at Kings Place
Brodsky Quartet
Albion Quartet
London Philharmonic Orchestra
At Kings Place, the Brodsky Quartet rounded off its late-Beethoven series with op.130. Preceding the quartet with a suitably introverted account of Purcell’s G minor Chacony served to underline certain antique qualities in the Beethoven that sometimes go underappreciated. It also lightened the alien landscape of the first movement, adding 18th-century character and conventions.
Perhaps the movement’s climax lacked a degree of precision and intensity – the chilly mood of a socially distanced hall can’t have helped – but as in Schubert’s song cycles there is a place for a performance that uncovers the composer’s strange, new directions afresh. The Brodskys found a brittle elegance in the second movement’s twitching moto perpetuo, and only gradually did the Andante outgrow a Biedermeier gentility, which prevailed in the Alla danza tedesca and the Haydnesque pleasantri
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