{"id":1856,"date":"2014-08-05T09:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T08:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2014-08-05T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T08:13:38","slug":"prom-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"Prom 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Prom-24.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1857\" alt=\"Prom 24\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Prom-24.jpg\" width=\"1350\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Prom-24.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Prom-24-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Prom-24-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Prom-24-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Monday 4 August 2014<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult for us today to realise that Vaughan Williams\u2019 <i>Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis <\/i>was found as confusingly modernist as its contemporary masterpiece, Mahler\u2019s 9<sup>th<\/sup> Symphony. Bringing the two works together for a Prom without an interval was a challenging but highly successful piece of programme planning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Runnicles\u2019 approach to both works was deceptively subtle. The Vaughan Williams had great clarity and distance, but retained a coolness throughout, resisting any gush of romanticism. The separate placement of the ensemble above the rest of the orchestra, and the clarity of the quartet within it, both ensured that we were constantly aware of the dynamic tensions the composer creates. It was a fitting preparation for the Mahler.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Runnicles\u2019 created a seamless inevitability in the opening movement, not so much pessimistic as fated \u2013 at times almost heroic \u2013 with a lovingly spun out final section. The <i>Landler<\/i> was slower than usual and somehow more refined. No smell of the countryside and cow-pats, though the waltz section had a diabolic edge to it. There was fire in the third movement but no raw edges which can galvanise this score in other hands. It was not until the last movement that we could fully realise the way he was shaping the whole. The glowing, almost lush, string unfolding of the finale was breath-taking, bringing a quite but positive sense of hope to the whole. The final bars, combining resignation and yearning, were as beautiful as one could imagine. If the audience had been rather noisy at the start \u2013 the coughing around me nearly drowned out the opening bars \u2013 they were far more attentive by the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 4 August 2014 It is difficult for us today to realise that Vaughan Williams\u2019 Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis was found as confusingly modernist as its contemporary masterpiece, Mahler\u2019s 9th Symphony. 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