Orchestral Energy and Passion Fills the Abbey ; Reviews
Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › July 25, 2009
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Bath Philharmonic Summer Classics 2009: Bath Abbey IT is hard to accept that the first two works in this concert, written by Russian composers, came from a man to whom music was really a hobby and the other was condemned as worthless by the head of the Moscow conservatory.
Borodin's In The Steppes of Central Asia, like so many of his pieces, vividly presents a picture. The orchestra played it with a nice light touch and then changed to a more dynamic mood for the famous opening bars of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1. Soloist Libor Novacek and conductor Jason Thornton obviously enjoyed each other's company. Despite moments when the acoustics in the Abbey robbed the partnership between piano and orchestra of some of its clarity, this mutual respect of each other's musical talents led to an energetic, often passionate performance, of this wonderful concerto.See the full content of this document
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