{"id":4635,"date":"2018-09-21T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T08:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4635"},"modified":"2018-09-21T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T08:56:07","slug":"hastings-philharmonic-at-rye-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4635","title":{"rendered":"Hastings Philharmonic at Rye Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>St Mary, Rye, Thursday 20<sup>th<\/sup> September 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hastings Philharmonic\u2019s new season does not officially open until 12 October but they had been invited to take part in this year\u2019s Rye Festival and a very successful visit it proved to be. The acoustic in St Mary\u2019s suits a baroque orchestra well and placing it essentially within the nave rather than wholly under the tower enhanced its impact.<\/p>\n<p>The evening was founded not just on Mozart but on his lifetime relationship with G minor. Though the Piano Concerto No17 is in the major it regularly dips into the minor and formed a formidable pair with the great G minor symphony.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Broberg, winner of the 2017 Hastings International Piano Competition, was the soloist, opening with a hard-edged almost aggressive approach in the first movement. In the second he brought out the introspective, searching quality of the score to fine effect, before cheering up considerably for the rustic dances of the finale.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the programme was familiar to those of us who are regular supporters of Hastings Philharmonic. Philip O\u2019Meara\u2019s <em>Flacubal<\/em> was first heard in March this year and was being given in a revised form. Much as I enjoyed its original outing this performance seemed crisper, with a light, bright opening \u2013 at times almost playful in its rapid melody making. The deep romanticism of the slow movement gives way to the <em>as fast as possible <\/em>of the finale and creates a virtual concerto part for the lead violin \u2013 splendidly played on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>This led into Mozart\u2019s Symphony No40 &#8211; the great G minor &#8211; with all the tension and passion the score requires. The great benefit of small forces is that the balance can be finely honed while the tempi need not drop. Bassoons were particularly impressive on this occasion and the rasp of the horns brought excitement to the concluding bars. Marcio da Silva handles his forces with great skill, shaping musical lines to beautiful effect and splendid impact within the warm and sympathetic acoustic.<\/p>\n<p>The Autumn-Winter season brochure is now available and on line at www.hastingsphilharmonic.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Mary, Rye, Thursday 20th September 2018 Hastings Philharmonic\u2019s new season does not officially open until 12 October but they had been invited to take part in this year\u2019s Rye Festival and a very successful visit it proved to be. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4635\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635"}],"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=4635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4636,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions\/4636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}