Théodore Akimenko
Angel (Poème-Nocturne)
Jennifer Higdon
Percussion Concerto
Niloufar Nourbakhsh
Knell
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor
Evelyn Glennie
percussion
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits
conductor
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Reviewed: 25 August, 2024
Venue: Bristol Beacon
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Bristol Beacon’s Orchestra in Residence – opens its concert with a little-known gem of Ukrainian music. Feodor Akimenko was born in Kharkiv in 1876, going on to teach Igor Stravinsky before writing his beautiful ‘Poème- Nocturne’ Angel in 1912. The BSO’s Ukrainian Chief Conductor (and Akimenko aficionado) Kirill Karabits conducts it here as a prelude to American composer Jennifer Higdon’s seriously flamboyant Percussion Concerto, played by Evelyn Glennie, and Tchaikovsky’s heart-on-sleeve Symphony No. 5. Knell by Iranian composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh offers a glance back to Akimenko’s Angel in its momentary, symbolic plea for peace.
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