Page 322 - Liverpool Philharmonic 22-23 Season Coverage Book
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22 September 2022
¡Hola! Domingo Hindoyan’s Spanish evening
with the RLPO in Liverpool
By Leighton Jones,
After a soggy autumnal Liverpool afternoon, the thought of basking in metaphorical Iberian
sunshine was appealing. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s chief conductor
Domingo Hindoyan was joined by pianist Javier Perianes in a programme which saw Spain
and the wider Mediterranean, chiefly through eyes from across the Pyrenees.
Domingo Hindoyan
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Opening proceedings was the orchestral rarity Escales from French composer Jacques
Ibert. Written in 1924, this three movement suite takes much influence from Debussy. The
first of three musical postcards, entitled “Rome-Palermo”, takes us on a trip between the
two Italian cities. Hindoyan did not make the atmosphere sufficiently convincing, the string
