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| Conductor Nicholas McGegan (Photo: Steve J Sherman) |
I haven’t reviewed a concert in quite a while, so it was
good to get back in the business, thanks to Bachtrack. Conductor Nicholas McGegan and the Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra certainly brought sensitivity and vitality to a collection of pieces
by Shcubert, Mozart and Beethoven:
"At the other end of the programme, a rather more serious
proposition in four movements: Schubert’s reasonably early but oh-so-mature
Fifth Symphony. A product of Schubert’s 19th year, the Fifth demonstrates the
charms of a composer who never seems to have suffered the stylistic growing
pains of a man struggling for a mature voice. It was here that McGegan drew the
best from the BSO, letting the music flow, bringing it to life by making the
most of dynamic contrasts and pointed accents. He saw no need to tug at the
tempi, and the orchestra responded with playing of considerable subtlety, a
case in point being the hushed but nuanced sound of the strings giving space to
the conversations of wind instruments as the first movement slipped from
exposition to development."
Read the whole thing at Bachtrack.
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