Verdi’s Requiem at the BBC Proms 2011
Posted on: 07-26-2011 by: Margarida Mota-Bull
The BBC Proms are here again! Rejoice music lovers!
Last Sunday, 24th July I went to this year’s Prom 13 for a performance of Verdi’s Requiem. I am not religious and therefore the Requiem is in that sense meaningless to me but this is a musical and dramatic masterpiece and its power is undeniable.
The Promers at Sunday’s concert were rewarded with a magnificent performance and a cast of the superlative! Everything was grandiose from the soloists: Joseph Calleja, Marina Poplavskaya, Mariana Pentcheva, Ferrucio Furlanetto; to the choirs (no less than three!): BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC National Chorus of Wales, London Philharmonic Choir, and the fabulous BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the distinguished Semyon Bychkov. I was there to review it and I must say that music reviews are not always easy to write but this one was a pleasure and my fingers just danced over the keyboard, as if by magic! Read my review here.
Categories: BBC Proms, Classic Composers, Comment/Opinion, Composers, Great Opera Composers, Music Reviews Tags: bass, Canto di Tenore, Classical music, Dark Side of Dawn, Ferrucio Furlanetto, Joseph Calleja, London, Marina Poplavskaya, Mezzo, Mozart, Music Reviews, Proms, Royal Albert Hall, soprano, Tenor, Time of the Furtive Moon, Verdi
Verdi’s Requiem at the BBC Proms 2011
Posted on: 07-26-2011 by: Margarida Mota-Bull
The BBC Proms are here again! Rejoice music lovers!
Last Sunday, 24th July I went to this year’s Prom 13 for a performance of Verdi’s Requiem. I am not religious and therefore the Requiem is in that sense meaningless to me but this is a musical and dramatic masterpiece and its power is undeniable.
The Promers at Sunday’s concert were rewarded with a magnificent performance and a cast of the superlative! Everything was grandiose from the soloists: Joseph Calleja, Marina Poplavskaya, Mariana Pentcheva, Ferrucio Furlanetto; to the choirs (no less than three!): BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC National Chorus of Wales, London Philharmonic Choir, and the fabulous BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the distinguished Semyon Bychkov. I was there to review it and I must say that music reviews are not always easy to write but this one was a pleasure and my fingers just danced over the keyboard, as if by magic! Read my review here.
Categories: BBC Proms, Classic Composers, Comment/Opinion, Composers, Great Opera Composers, Music Reviews Tags: bass, Canto di Tenore, Classical music, Dark Side of Dawn, Ferrucio Furlanetto, Joseph Calleja, London, Marina Poplavskaya, Mezzo, Mozart, Music Reviews, Proms, Royal Albert Hall, soprano, Tenor, Time of the Furtive Moon, Verdi