BBC Philharmonic reviews
BBC Young Musician 2022 winner announced
Percussionist Jordan Ashman is announced as the winner of BBC Young Musician 2022
Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 1; Pan, etc
BBC Philharmonic/Omer Meir Wellber, et al (Chandos)
HK Gruber: Percussion Concertos
Colin Currie (percussion); BBC Philharmonic/John Storgårds, Juanjo Mena (Colin Currie Records)
Martin Suckling: This Departing Landscape, etc
Katherine Bryan (flute), Tamara Stefanovich (piano); BBC Philharmonic; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov (NMC)
David Matthews: A Vision of the Sea, etc
BBC Philharmonic/Jac van Steen (Signum Classics)
James MacMillan: Symphony No. 4; Viola Concerto
Lawrence Power (viola); BBC Philharmonic/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion)
Ginastera: Piano Concerto No. 1; Concierto argentino, etc
Xiayin Wang; BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena (Chandos)
Roussel: Suite for Orchestra in F; Pour une fête de printemps; Évocations
Kathryn Rudge, Alessandro Fisher, François le Roux;
CBSO Chorus; BBC Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 (Storgårds)
BBC Philharmonic/John Storgårds (Chandos)
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 5
Louis Lortie (piano); BBC Philharmonic/Edward Gardner (Chandos)
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 4
Louis Lortie; BBC Philharmonic/Edward Gardner (Chandos)
Copland: Orchestral Works Vol 4
BBC Philharmonic/John Wilson (Chandos)
Antheil: Symphonies Nos 3 & 6; Spectre of the Rose Waltz; Archipelago; Hot-Time Dance
BBC Philharmonic/John Storgårds (Chandos)
Arriaga: Los esclavos felices – Overture; Herminie; Overture, Op. 20; Air de Médée; Symphony in D minor
Berit Norbakken Solset; BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena (Chandos)
The Symphonic Euphonium II
David Childs (euphonium); BBC Philharmonic/Ben Gernon (Chandos)
Wilson and BBC Philharmonic perform Copland
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Andrew Davis conducts Elgar's Falstaff and Orchestral Songs
Andrew Davis’s Falstaff brought at least one thing into focus for me: years after I first heard it I’m still waiting for a light to go on. This profusely inventive late score is so full of brilliant, colourful, atmospheric music that by rights it ought to be a masterpiece. And yet, even after a performance as vivid and authoritative as this one, I still can’t see the whole for the parts. Overall there’s something bafflingly elusive about it. Above all there’s that bizarre ending: definitely not a bang, and barely even a whimper.