City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla
3 February 2020
Unsuk Chin’s Spira is subtitled Concerto for Orchestra, and this teeming 25-minute soundscape certainly put the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra through its virtuosic paces. What the title fails to point out is that this is an Olympic-level workout for the listener too. It was just as well that Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla began by summoning our concentration. Raising her arms as if to start conducting, she then paused until the audience’s momentary silence transformed into an expectant stillness.
Full review: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/city-of-birmingham-symphony-orchestra-mirga-grazinyte-tyla-review-the-more-closely-you-listened-the-more-there-was-to-discover-lvqqtb7xx
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Iván Fischer
10 February 2020
What if Mozart’s three final symphonies were not individual pieces but one huge extended work? That was the “firm belief” of the late Nikolaus Harnoncourt, explained the evening’s conductor, Ivan Fischer. The evidence: all three were written in one creative burst in 1788, and, unusually, were without commission. So how about listening to them, Fischer suggested, as 12 individual movements.
Full review: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/orchestra-of-the-age-of-enlightenment-fischer-review-a-disjointed-take-on-mozart-kdh07g5bc
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