Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Concert Hall, Friday – Göteborgs-Posten

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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Concert Hall, Friday

Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Soloist: Valeriy Sokolov

The Music of Malmborg Ward, Prokofiev, Shostakovich

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is visiting Gothenburg with two young rising star in the front line. But the conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali and violinist Valeriy Sokolov’s not just young (they are both under 30). They also represent an expressive ideals, with sweeping gestures and bold lines in the expressive passages. This means that the sound sometimes get a shrill nature, and many of the fine print shades disappears.

Technically, Valeriy Sokolov’s game in Prokofiev’s second violin concerto excellent. However, the interpretation becomes more of a circus than a deeper art experience. It includes the exquisitely beautiful second movement, with its soft melody line and ethereal atmosphere. It sounds nice of course, but not in any really profound way. The music inside will not get through.

Introduction The piece, Paula af Malmborg Ward Threads from 2011, uses fragments from Alice Tegner children’s songs. But what dominates is crisp, fanfare-like brass sections, rather than singable melodies. Expressions terms reminiscent of big band music and some sequences in old musicals. The hardness of the sound takes the edge off the sensible and listening. Alice Tegner does one hear so much of.

Orchestral game highlights after the break, in Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony. In one of the low-key center rates makes bassoonist Emily Hultmark and clarinet Emil Jonasson great efforts solo and the music may be a flowing character. But in the outer movements dominate the gestural, and the classicism that characterizes this Sjostakovitjverk may not be something really play. It is more about developing the powerful and energetic, but to emphasize the cautious and ambiguous.