New Year in Vienna, The Forum, Bath. New Year’s Day.
Vienna came to Bath in spectacular fashion with the London Gala Orchestra presenting its 20th season of New Year concerts to a packed house at the Forum.
Vienna came to Bath in spectacular fashion with the London Gala Orchestra presenting its 20th season of New Year concerts to a packed house at the Forum.
A doleful, discordant, almost tuneless opening – surely Purcell’s Chacony in G Minor is no appetiser – eventually and mercifully gave way to what in the end turned out to be an interesting evening.
This season of concerts formulated by the music centre’s new artistic director, James Slater, is becoming a year of superlatives.
This season of concerts formulated by the centre’s new artistic director, James Slater, is becoming a year of superlatives.
Most pianists, and particularly those enlightened souls with a love of Bach, will have their favourite recording of the heavenly Bach Goldberg Variations. Mostly, I fancy, on now scratchy vinyl.
The Wiltshire Music centre opened its new season on Saturday with a glittering reception for 300 guests, a raft of high hopes and credits, a cunningly conceived 405-light sculpture in a refurbished foyer - and, the real meat of it all, a concert of Baroque music that must surely surpass anything previously staged there.
They sing, they say, in the language of heaven; they are British born, but by the grace of God (maintains a friend of mine), Welsh. It is a Welsh Male Voice Choir: Cwmbach, to be precise.
It is by no means dismissive of the contribution by the whole orchestra but the solos and exposed work of various sections of this large ensemble were the outstanding performances of a thoroughly workmanlike concert.
Miss Cooper must be one of the world’s best and Miss Wieder-Atherton can’t be far behind.
The wondrous sound of nearly a full sinfonia-size orchestra filled the Wiltshire Music Centre not only with sound but, significantly, with people.
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