A force to make the skin tingle... Review.Byline: ARTHUR STEELE Fried, Delogu. CBSO CBSO City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , Birmingham Town Hail. IN PROKOFIEV'S Symphony No. 5 the CBSO under Gaetano Delogu gave us one of the most exciting experiences of the season. Its mixture of sheer virtuosity, wicked irony and rhythmic drive, all laced with the composer's individual line in melody, came over with irresistible vitality. The CBSO may possibly produce a more refined record of its trickier pages but they responded to the drive like a racehorse racehorse refers usually to thoroughbred but may also include standardbred, trotter. that hasn't been stretched enough and finished the work with a run-up to the tape that was skin-prickling in its electricity. Perhaps its impact was heightened by the disappointment of the Beethoven Violin Concerto A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. . There Miriam Fried had offered us some exquisite phrasing and tone to match but, notably in the First Movement, her slowness drained off the natural Beethoven energy the conductor and orchestra tried to create. This meant the larghetto lacked contrast and that lively last movement failed to regenerate, my interest. |
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