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tamaranthQuick write-up of Tuesday's concert, which was 100% worth the trip to London and the slow, crowded trip back ...
Beethoven Violin Concerto (w. Joshua Bell, who still looks incredibly young but plays with the perfect blend of delicate sweetness and tempestuous passion): the drumbeat of Fate is always there in the background though.
Then Beethoven Symphony #3 'Eroica', the slow movement of which always reminds me of slow movements in the late symphonies. Full of changing rhythms and brief dissonances, forceful and yet urbane, and the finale is sheer jubilation.
Muti is a marvellously restrained conductor: no contortions, frenzy, grandiose gestures here, just sheer control. He brings out the best in the Philharmonia. And he dedicated the Eroica to Gerald Druckner, former principal bassist, who died recently.
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Beethoven Violin Concerto (w. Joshua Bell, who still looks incredibly young but plays with the perfect blend of delicate sweetness and tempestuous passion): the drumbeat of Fate is always there in the background though.
Then Beethoven Symphony #3 'Eroica', the slow movement of which always reminds me of slow movements in the late symphonies. Full of changing rhythms and brief dissonances, forceful and yet urbane, and the finale is sheer jubilation.
Muti is a marvellously restrained conductor: no contortions, frenzy, grandiose gestures here, just sheer control. He brings out the best in the Philharmonia. And he dedicated the Eroica to Gerald Druckner, former principal bassist, who died recently.
edit to add Times review
