{"id":2134,"date":"2015-01-12T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T09:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2015-01-12T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T09:52:15","slug":"bpo-brahms-beethoven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=2134","title":{"rendered":"BPO: Brahms &#038; Beethoven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Dome, Brighton, 11 January 2015<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Gourlay brought bite and enthusiasm to his reading of both the Brahms\u2019 Piano Concerto and Beethoven\u2019s 7<sup>th<\/sup> Symphony. The symphony was conceived as a single arch, opening with controlled crescendi before launching into the gentle dance of the first theme. There was nothing deadly about the slow movement, its rhythms seeming closer to the scherzo of the 5<sup>th<\/sup> rather than the funeral march of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. The third movement romped along with a rather soupy Trio from the horns before we were almost literally blown away with the speed of the finale. It was a compelling approach which was obviously to the taste of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Brahms\u2019 first Piano Concerto proved somewhat more problematic. Tempi were again on the fast side, with a fine sense of tension between the more strident passages and Brahms\u2019 more indulgent moments. However, not until the final movement did the soloist, Martin Roscoe, seem to be fully at ease with the orchestra. Though there had been nothing to fault with his own approach, in the opening movement his playing had seemed somewhat distant from the intensity of the orchestra. Thankfully he suddenly came alive in the finale which was full of fire and virility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dome, Brighton, 11 January 2015 Andrew Gourlay brought bite and enthusiasm to his reading of both the Brahms\u2019 Piano Concerto and Beethoven\u2019s 7th Symphony. The symphony was conceived as a single arch, opening with controlled crescendi before launching into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=2134\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}