★★★★★ This red-hot concert provided an inspiring preview of the orchestra under Pappano, who takes over as chief conductor next year ✒️ jessicaduchen
Whoosh! A lavish glory of strings, a grand battery of percussion, the woodwind and brass glaring and blaring, and Richard Strauss’s– “A Hero’s Life” – provides an inspiring preview of the London Symphony Orchestra under its principal conductor designate, Sir Antonio Pappano, who takes over from Sir Simon Rattle in September next year.as well as the Strauss – was all about musical narrative, and Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House for over 20 years, is of course expert at this.
What must be inborn, however, is the red-hot intensity and grand-scale imagination that transforms a good performance into a great one – and he has it in gallons. It looks as if the LSO has scored a bullseye in signing him. Coleridge-Taylor, the mixed-race former child prodigy from Croydon, died of pneumonia, exhaustion and overwork in 1912, aged 37. Today his music’s rehabilitation is well under way; at last everybody is doing it. His, a genial showpiece written in 1898 in South Norwood, is a perfect 10-minute concert opener, and Pappano made it into an uplifting fairy tale, filled to its fingertips with passion.proved a less satisfying rarity.
The hero finds love, the heady violin solo from concertmaster Roman Simovic flirting, seducing and soaring in a passage that symbolises Strauss’s soprano wife, Pauline. There’s a terrifying war , but the composer’s nemesis is the nastiest of all critics, the rhythm of the name “Eduard Hanslick” – the most notorious Viennese critic of the day – reputedly traced in ugly “parallel fifths” .
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