{"id":662,"date":"2012-10-29T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T07:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=662"},"modified":"2012-10-29T07:56:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T07:56:42","slug":"london-philharmonic-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"London Philharmonic Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?attachment_id=664\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jamie-Walton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, 28 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The London Philharmonic Orchestra has been associated with Eastbourne for over eighty years now, and their regular seasons at Glyndebourne have kept the relationship even closer. If two thirds of the programme was very familiar, the central concerto was not and proved to be the most interesting item. Saint-Saens\u2019 Second Cello Concerto was the last of his ten concerti and one of the most demanding. The cellist is faced with double-stopping from the start and there are some fiendishly difficult passages.<\/p>\n<p>None of this seemed to worry soloist<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> Jamie Walton<\/span> who brought genuine lyricism to the <em>Andante sostenuto<\/em> and fire to his extended cadenza. The work makes its way from an introverted D minor to a blaze in D major. It was very enthusiastically received and one hopes we might hear it more often.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon had not opened with this level of enthusiasm. The performance of Tchaikovsky\u2019s <em>Serenade for Strings <\/em>was accurate but sleepy, with little sense of life or warmth. Thankfully the concerto seemed to have woken everybody up and the performance of Dvorak\u2019s Eighth Symphony after the interval was finely paced and brought well moulded changes of mood. Climaxes were well built in the <em>Adagio,<\/em> and there was an excellent flute obbligato in the <em>Allegretto. <\/em>The cello section had shone throughout, even in the Tchaikovsky, and came into its own in the final movement of the Dvorak with a warm, romantic line for the main theme.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Seal, a regular conductor with the CBSO, was making his debut with the LPO this afternoon and showed increasing confidence as the performance progressed. BH<\/p>\n<p><em>The next concert in the series is on 9 December with works by Brahms, Mozart and Bruckner\u00a0<\/em> eastbournetheatres.co.uk\u00a0 01323 412000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, 28 October The London Philharmonic Orchestra has been associated with Eastbourne for over eighty years now, and their regular seasons at Glyndebourne have kept the relationship even closer. If two thirds of the programme was very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=662\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}