News and Reviews
We'll be posting up links to news, reviews and blogs about the festival.
If you find something we haven't listed, let us know on info@lpo.org.uk
We'll be posting up links to news, reviews and blogs about the festival.
If you find something we haven't listed, let us know on info@lpo.org.uk
Reviews
We've posted excerpts of reviews on our blog:
21 January (Royal College of Music)
25 January (Jurowski and Fleisher)
28 January (Jurowski, Callow, Richardson)
1 February (Nézet-Séguin, Jansen)
We've posted excerpts of reviews on our blog:
21 January (Royal College of Music)
25 January (Jurowski and Fleisher)
28 January (Jurowski, Callow, Richardson)
1 February (Nézet-Séguin, Jansen)
Reviews of 18/1/12
Newspaper and blog reviews of Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 5 and Symphony No. 6, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
The Guardian (Martin Kettle)
The Telegraph (Ivan Hewett)
The Independent (Edward Seckerson)
Newspaper and blog reviews of Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 5 and Symphony No. 6, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
The Guardian (Martin Kettle)
The Telegraph (Ivan Hewett)
The Independent (Edward Seckerson)
Radio 3 broadcast of 18/1/12
Listen online via BBC iplayer until 24 January
Prokofiev Symphonic Song
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 5
Prokofiev Symphony No. 6
Listen online via BBC iplayer until 24 January
Prokofiev Symphonic Song
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 5
Prokofiev Symphony No. 6
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Stephen Osborne piano
Go to Radio 3 website >
Reviews of 13/1/2012
Newspaper and blog reviews of the opening concert of the festival with Vedernikov and Ishizaka.
Financial Times (Richard Fairman)
The Guardian (Tim Ashley)
The Independent (Edward Seckerson)
Evening Standard (Nick Kimberley)
Classical Source (Colin Anderson)
Seen and Heard (Mark Berry)
Newspaper and blog reviews of the opening concert of the festival with Vedernikov and Ishizaka.
Financial Times (Richard Fairman)
The Guardian (Tim Ashley)
The Independent (Edward Seckerson)
Evening Standard (Nick Kimberley)
Classical Source (Colin Anderson)
Seen and Heard (Mark Berry)
Beyond Peter and the Wolf [08/01/2012]
Independent on Sunday interview with Vladimir Jurowski
"I was interested in Prokofiev because of the apparent contradiction between the coolness of the person, often proclaimed as showing a lack of empathy for others, and his incredibly warm-hearted, very human music, especially in the work of his later years."
Read now >
Independent on Sunday interview with Vladimir Jurowski
"I was interested in Prokofiev because of the apparent contradiction between the coolness of the person, often proclaimed as showing a lack of empathy for others, and his incredibly warm-hearted, very human music, especially in the work of his later years."
Read now >
Prokofiev diaries [04/01/2012]
How would Prokofiev have made use of twitter? Find out what Prokofiev was writing in his diaries over Christmas between 1915 and 1922...reinterpreted for the 21st century!
More info >
How would Prokofiev have made use of twitter? Find out what Prokofiev was writing in his diaries over Christmas between 1915 and 1922...reinterpreted for the 21st century!
More info >
Prokofiev podcast [03/01/2012]
Vladimir Jurowski, the festival's Artistic Director, introduces Prokofiev, his music and his diaries, and explores the new version Ivan the Terrible receiving its world premiere on 28 January.
Listen Now >
Vladimir Jurowski, the festival's Artistic Director, introduces Prokofiev, his music and his diaries, and explores the new version Ivan the Terrible receiving its world premiere on 28 January.
Listen Now >
Sergei and the wolf [16/12/2011]
Guardian preview of the festival by Richard Fairman
Vladimir Jurowski, the orchestra’s principal conductor, explains why he wanted to present a Prokofiev festival now. “There are certain figures in our culture we tend to come back to regularly over certain intervals of time,” he says. “By trying to understand them, we understand things about ourselves. Prokofiev is an emblematic figure of the 20th century, a figure full of controversy, of ambivalence, of contradictions, like the century itself.”
Read now >
Guardian preview of the festival by Richard Fairman
Vladimir Jurowski, the orchestra’s principal conductor, explains why he wanted to present a Prokofiev festival now. “There are certain figures in our culture we tend to come back to regularly over certain intervals of time,” he says. “By trying to understand them, we understand things about ourselves. Prokofiev is an emblematic figure of the 20th century, a figure full of controversy, of ambivalence, of contradictions, like the century itself.”
Read now >
Podcast [9/12/2011]
Conductor Alexander Vedernikov speaks to journalist Edward Seckerson for the Independent Newspaper.
In addition to talking about Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Vedernikov has interesting observations to make about one of his favourite composers citing Prokofiev as "the last of the piano composers" striving to reimagine his keyboard world in the orchestra.
Listen Now > (via the Independent Website)
Conductor Alexander Vedernikov speaks to journalist Edward Seckerson for the Independent Newspaper.
In addition to talking about Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Vedernikov has interesting observations to make about one of his favourite composers citing Prokofiev as "the last of the piano composers" striving to reimagine his keyboard world in the orchestra.
Listen Now > (via the Independent Website)
Prokofiev resources
The following sites contain more information about Prokofiev, man and music.
Serge Prokofiev archive
BBC on Prokofiev
The Prokofiev Page
Pushkin House
The following sites contain more information about Prokofiev, man and music.
Serge Prokofiev archive
BBC on Prokofiev
The Prokofiev Page
Pushkin House
Thanks
We are grateful to the following for their support of this Prokofiev festival:
The Serge Prokofiev Foundation
Mr Leonid and Mrs Olga Makharinsky
Embassy of the Russian Federation
The Prokofiev Composition Project is supported by The Coutts Charitable Trust, The Peter Minet Trust, and the Newcomen Collett Foundation.
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is supported by Arts Council England, and is proud to be Resident Orchestra at Southbank Centre
