World’s newest violin concerto is yours to view

World’s newest violin concerto is yours to view

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norman lebrecht

May 02, 2021

The Mark Simpson concerto premiered by Nicola Benedetti with the London Symphony Orchestra is free to view this week on Maruqee TV.

It’s a cracker.

Click here.

 

 

Comments

  • John Borstlap says:
    May 2, 2021 at 10:56 am

    For people, who haven’t heard of Simpson:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxUWZ6qoJy4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIGr_3XpTh8

    It’s nervous music at the edge of sonic art.

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  • william osborne says:
    May 2, 2021 at 12:34 pm

    A genuinely remarkable new work. And presented from the outset with such a fine performance and video production. Truly unrelenting demands on the soloist, and yet mastered with such virtuosity!

    And a couple related thoughts: 1) The work seems to speak to the ever-increasing divide between the Anglo-American and continental new music worlds. 2) How does the UK have such fine orchestras and yet pay them so badly?

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  • Phil. says:
    May 2, 2021 at 4:22 pm

    Viewed? thought violin concertos were heard ?

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  • Helen Beadamoo says:
    May 3, 2021 at 11:28 am

    Pretentious junk that goes nowhere. Lousy orchestration too

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  • RobK says:
    June 26, 2021 at 10:19 am

    It’s a work of tremendous skill and ambition – I found it somewhat over-scored, especially in the percussion department, but… give the guy a break! I wish I could write so idiomatically for the violin as does this clarinet-playing composer.

    Hints of Walton (perhaps unavoidably) in the energetic, neo-romantic crowd-pleaser (and nothing wrong with that!) And bravissimo to la Benedetti!

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