Bartok Piano Concerto No. 2
Haydn An imaginary orchestral journey
London Symphony Orchestra
Denis Kozhukhin, piano
Simon Rattle, conductor
Barbican Hall, London 11 July 2017
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Simon Rattle’s commitment to Haydn’s genius produced a memorable Barbican night. For him this was a reprise of a concert in Berlin stringing together movements from various Haydn works into “An Imaginary Orchestral Journey”. This type of thing has also been successfully done to Rameau by Marc Minkowski.
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| The Esterhazy Palace, Haydn's long-term home |
As well as giving a more prominent platform for part of the “7 Last Words of Christ”, Symphonies 64, 6, 46, 60, 45, and 90 were excerpted as well as The Creation, The Seasons and the obscure L'Isola Disabitata. There was some lovely moments of fantasy, not least when the little known mechanical organ took centre stage. Haydn wrote 17 pieces for mechanical organs, one of which was featured here before Rattle paused proceedings to listen to these little constructions being broadcast unadulterated from various locations around the Barbican Hall. Somehow both arch and evocative all at the same time.
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| Joseph Haydn |
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