Evaluate of Hallé live performance performed by Anja Bihlmaier with soloist Maxim Rysanov

  

Anja Bihlmaier  cr Nikolaj Lund

It was Beethoven’s Fourth with zip on the Hallé
final night time, as Anja Bihlmaier confirmed her credentials as a conductor of the
current day, taking the tempo markings very a lot at face worth and, with the
orchestra in positive fettle virtually from the primary bar, making a efficiency of
neatness and wonder.

She had 40 strings for your entire programme,
which additionally started with Beethoven, within the type of the tone-poem-like Leonora
no. 3 overture. I’ve heard it performed with extra operatic environment – there have been
solely the briefest of pauses, for example, on this efficiency to observe the
off-stage trumpet calls – however I feel she wished it to be as coherent as
attainable as a musical construction. It definitely had a fiery presto to
end.

In between the Beethoven items there was
Maxim Rysanov with Bartók’s Viola Concerto (as accomplished by Tibór Sérly) –
performed with artistry and assurance and gathering a good outdated head of steam in
the gypsy-style passages of its finale – and adopted by an encore for the
soloist, himself Ukrainian-born, and the Hallé strings led by Roberto Ruisi: Myroslav Skoryk’s Melody, a chunk
which has turn into a logo of lament and horror on the Russian invasion of
Ukraine.

After the break got here Unsuk Chin’s subito
con forza, a brief sequence of shocks and surprises apparently impressed by
Beethoven’s music, wherein a notable function was versatility of Erika Öhman on
numerous percussion devices (which, along with her function as timpanist for
the remainder of the programme, makes her worthy of the woman-of-the-match award for
this present).

The Beethoven symphony started in what might
have been Haydn fashion and went on to a reasonably perky Adagio and a energetic
work-out within the Scherzo, with solely slight let-up within the tempo for the trios.
The final motion danced away from the very first word and ended with a positive
impact of distinction – certainly one of Beethoven’s personal surprises. I used to be impressed by the
taking part in, proven in quite a few factors within the night however supremely in that
finale, of the visitor principal bassoon, Todd Gibson-Cornish.

Maxim Rysanov