7th September 2014
Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom
BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture
JORG WIDMANN Flûte en suite
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
Joshua Smith (flute)
Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
I am desperate for an antidote to Respighi and BPO playing Stravinsky, and two doses of Brahms is just perfect. I don't know my Viennese tradition, but The Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst playing Beethoven 10 was rather fine (at least he did not quit this job). III was particularly elegant and IV was exceptionally precise, if the sound was slightly too tender on the whole for RAH. The uncharacteristic flute concerto by Widmann, however, is completely negligible. The Bach "Badinerie" quotation sounded rather offensive. As contemporary composition goes, it is frankly worse than most.
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