rcs symphony Orchestra, RCS, Glasgow

Monday 28 May 2012

YEAR upon year the Royal Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra produces the goods.

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Michael Timelty

Are they just lucky? Is it great students? And even if it was, how could you guarantee the consistency of excellence in their concert performances? Every generation is different. Are we waiting for a routine crop? Is it good teaching and top-drawer coaching? Is it the charisma or quality of the conductors they attract who inspire the students to reach beyond themselves? Is it the ethos of the place? I don't know. It's magical. It's mysterious.

There are too many issues wrapped up in this to consider in today's tiny review space. Suffice to say that on Friday night, with Austrian conductor David Danzmayr at the helm, they blew the place, and the audience, apart with a visceral, uncompromising account of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony that toed no party line but concentrated on the intrinsic juggernaut-intensity of the piece, prefacing it with a lucid performance of Ruslan and Ludmilla, conducted by the RCS's Gordon Bragg, and a blisteringly effective account of Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto with spectacular Egyptian soloist Mohamed Shamseldin.HHHH

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