‘Slash with a violin’ 😅

Happy to read the 5🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 review about our Brahms Double concerto with the English Symphony Orchestra Daniel Rowland – violin and dear Kenneth Woods, conductor in Malvern last Friday 🥰
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“They opened with Brahms much loved Double Concerto. With a tune to knock your socks off right out of the blocks, the ESO impressed immediately with strident strings, muscular tutti and a precision of timing that has yet again blown me away.

Maja Bogdanović opening cello salvo was a virtuosic display designed to dazzle. I particularly enjoyed the double stopping, the strummed chords and harmonics. A master of her instrument, she makes it sing, roar and weep. There’s something about the cellos low notes dug into with gusto that stir the soul and give praise to the musical Gods.

Tonight’s other soloist, violinist Daniel Rowland, was equally compelling, the perfect partner with Maja, I loved his full throttled florid runs – especially as he did it with such apparent effortlessness. I also enjoyed his rock star like stage presence (think Slash with a violin). Both master musicians had great physicality and their timing with each other was precision itself; to an almost superhuman extent. They sounded like one soloist with 4 hands and two brains! The orchestra had perfect balance, bringing out ever nuance in the scores. The strings were particularly brilliant in both execution and sound. The Brahms middle movement was a soulful display of passion and drama. And the last movement had moments which to me sounded like a Poirot TV score (rather modern). An amazing work played flawlessly and the perfect way to start a concert! Daniel and Maja gave us an unexpected additional gift: Pēteris Vasks “Castillo Interior”. Two outer chorale like movements of aching beauty sandwiched a frantic middle movement. A magical piece which I will seek out again – Daniel told me that they have a recording of the work on Spotify.”

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