Sakari Oramo reviews
Anna Clyne: Mythologies album review
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, Andre de Ridder, et al (Avie)
Alwyn: Miss Julie
Anna Patalong (soprano), Benedict Nelson (bass-baritone), et al; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo (Chandos)
R Martinsson: Open Mind; Orchestral Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson; A.S. in Memoriam; Concerto for Orchestra
Lisa Larsson; Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew Manze, Sakari Oramo
(BIS)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano);
BBC Symphony Orchestra/
Sakari Oramo (BIS)
Langgaard: Symphonies Nos 2 & 6, etc
Anu Komsi; Vienna Philharmonic/Sakari Oramo (Dacapo)
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo perform Schmitt
If you had to describe Florent Schmitt’s music for Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra – composed in 1920 for a production starring the Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein – you would say it mingles Ravel and Debussy with a generous sprinkling of Rimsky-Korsakov’s orientalism. The results are, in the opening movement of the two suites recorded here, headily exotic, as harp, celeste and solo violin add sensual commentary to the lovers’ nocturnal assignation.