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Bezig met laden... BBC Proms 2019 : Prom 40 : Queen Victoria's 200th Anniversary [sound recording]door BBC Radio 3, Prince Consort Albert (Samensteller), Felix Mendelssohn (Samensteller), Arthur Sullivan (Samensteller)
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)780.7842132The arts Music Music Education, research, performances Performances (concerts and recitals) Concerts in Europe Concerts in England & Wales Concerts in London West London Westminster CityWaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |
Arthur Sullivan’s Victoria and Merrie England suite was not a promising start. Written for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee celebrations, this is blandly jaunty stuff. Even Ádám Fischer’s sprightly conducting of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment couldn’t prevent it being dangerously tasteful.
Ditto the five songs by Prince Albert that opened the second half. Alessandro Fisher eked what lyricism he could out of unmemorable vocal lines, his light tenor mellow and enviably even-toned; Stephen Hough’s treatment of the endless Alberti bass accompaniments was minutely sensitive. So far, so low-octane.
Mercifully, the rest – a tribute to Victoria and Albert’s energetic promotion of continental European music – was superlative. Playing Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No 1 on Victoria’s own 1856 gold-leaf Erard grand, Hough relished the instrument’s pronounced strike and varied patina across the keyboard. He wove delicate skeins of melody in the slow movement and unfurled the finale’s handfuls of notes with fuss-free finesse, the piano’s desiccated tone always illuminated by the OAE’s riot of orchestral colour.
Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 3, similarly, was a performance in HD: horn rasps, wonderfully turgid double bass pizzicatos, tiny shivers of pianissimo strings. Fischer’s extraordinary clarity of ensemble allowed for subtle adjustments of tempo, making the performance as a whole irrepressibly, boisterously musical.