Dukas, Berkeley, and Prokofiev
Jul. 27th, 2016 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylMichael Berkeley's striking violin concerto formed the centre-piece of tonight's prom, with Chloë Hanslip as soloist. Written following the death of the composer's wife, the piece features an astonishing section on the electric violin which sounds like nothing quite so much as a great cry of pain.
The concerto was prefaced by Paul Dukas' La Péri, which I didn't know at all but which I thought was really rather good, with particularly fine orchestration. The evening was rounded off with a selection of pieces from Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet — a I piece I remember so clearly from childhood that it came as something of a shock to discover that it was, first and foremost, a play rather than a ballet...
The concerto was prefaced by Paul Dukas' La Péri, which I didn't know at all but which I thought was really rather good, with particularly fine orchestration. The evening was rounded off with a selection of pieces from Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet — a I piece I remember so clearly from childhood that it came as something of a shock to discover that it was, first and foremost, a play rather than a ballet...
