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Geoff Brown
On BBC Sounds
Read the full review of Philharmonia/Rouvali
Oslo Philharmonic/ Makela review — young conductor lives up to the
hype in spellbinding Proms debut
The hype machine has been in full flow but the spindly, 26-year old Finnish conductor Klaus
Makela unquestionably conquered the Proms in his festival debut with the Oslo Philharmonic.
The packed Hall seemed to come alive the moment the music started, and the spell lasted the
entire night.
And then there was the night’s star soloist: Yuja Wang, whose playing was as dazzling as her
sweetie-wrapper dress. She is a pianist born to get maximum juice out of Liszt’s Piano Concerto
No 1 and did so with a brilliant range of colours and moods, tempestuous when she wanted to
be, elsewhere carefully ceding ground to other instrumental solos.
Neil Fisher
On BBC Sounds and iPlayer
Read the full review of Oslo Philharmonic/ Makela
La voix humaine/ Les mamelles de Tirésias — a triumph of exploding
breasts and puppet babies
Dig out your glad rags, pack up a picnic and beg, borrow or steal a ticket to Glyndebourne’s
latest offering, a Poulenc double bill that will first turn you into an emotional wreck then have
you laughing all the way home. There’s not a foot put wrong by the cast or the conductor Robin
Ticciati and the director Laurent Pelly, who dreamt up an evening in which the tragic telephone
monologue La voix humaine is followed by the surreal gender-bending farce of Les mamelles de
Tirésias — and, yes, that’s the one with the exploding balloon breasts. To Aug 28
Rebecca Franks
Read the full La voix humaine review
