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| Nicola Benedetti & the London Symphony Orchestra © LSO/Mark Allan |
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
7pm, Thursday 3 April 2025
Barbican Hall, London
★★★★
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Festive Overture, Op. 96
James MacMillan (b.1959): Violin Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112, 'The Year 1917'
Festive Overture:
'Noseda took the LSO through a tight and spirited rendition, with strong articulation from the strings in particular'.
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| Gianandrea Noseda conducts the London Symphony Orchestra © LSO/Mark Allan |
'There’s a particularly aggressive central solo, where Benedetti didn’t hold back on, producing lots of extra ‘noise’ from the bow and wood of the instrument, and she also mesmerised with rapid minimalist repetitions, as well as rising trills at the opening'.
'... towards the end MacMillan’s master stroke, a series of duets between the soloist and different instruments, started playfully with the double bass and ended with a sweet duet with the leader'.
Symphony No. 12:
'There was a relentlessness to the sheer intensity and volume here, but Noseda and the orchestra kept us with them by fully exploiting the moments of ‘downtime’, few and far between though they are'.
'That full-on finish, a feat of stamina for all involved, was indeed electric, but within that, Noseda still managed to shape some of the final surges, almost running forward to the edge of the podium and back'.
Read my review on Bachtrack here.
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