Nicola Benedetti

[bluestateprommer]

A fine performer, engaging personality and (in view of her educational work) all round good egg.

Certainly more than good enough to warrant becoming a CBE: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/t...ours-list-2019

"The New Year’s Honours list 2019, published on Saturday 29 December, recognises the outstanding achievements of people across the United Kingdom.

Awards include...a CBE for musician Nicola Benedetti..."

[Richard Tarleton]

Certainly more than good enough to warrant becoming a CBE: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/t...ours-list-2019

Thank you for this news, bsp - I, pastoralguy and many others will I'm sure be raising a to her for this well-deserved award.

[pastoralguy]

Thank you for this news, bsp - I, pastoralguy and many others will I'm sure be raising a to her for this well-deserved award.

Absolutely! glug!

[cloughie]

Absolutely! glug!

[BBMmk2]

Very good to hear this!

[french frank]

CBE is a high honour indeed for such a young performer. She's had flak from some people (even here ) in the past, but she is an artist who, I think, has been audibly improving through her professional career. So:

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... she is an artist who, I think, has been audibly improving through her professional career.

On the basis of her earliest recordings, I hadn't bothered following her subsequent career, so was astonished by her powerful recording of Shostakovich from a couple of years ago. Terrific stuff.

[richardfinegold]

Very good value here for Igor's own, if you don't want the intégrale...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stravinsky-...nsky+concertos

Downloading off of BIS would give you the option of the Concerto in D on its own, with Suzuki...
http://www.eclassical.com/labels/bis...a-suite-2.html

I’d ordered the Karajan from Japan but it hasn’t arrived. Perhaps I will download the Suzuki today...

[Conchis]

Anyone fancy working for her?

http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/arts-job/post/general-manager-4c7da5bf61/

[bluestateprommer]

The NYT has a fresh write-up on NB:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/arts/music/nicola-benedetti-edinburgh-international-festival.html

For RF, if you fancy a drive from Chicago south, NB is scheduled for two weekends next month with the St. Louis Symphony, the first of them with Sir James MacMillan, no less, on the podium:

Weekend 1: https://shop.slso.org/7396

Weekend 2: https://shop.slso.org/7399

Of course, before St. Louis, there's Boston next weekend:

https://www.bso.org/events/dvorak-szymanowski-lutoslawski

This all assumes, of course, that COVID or anything else doesn't up-end matters.

[Barbirollians]

The NYT has a fresh write-up on NB:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/arts/music/nicola-benedetti-edinburgh-international-festival.html

For RF, if you fancy a drive from Chicago south, NB is scheduled for two weekends next month with the St. Louis Symphony, the first of them with Sir James MacMillan, no less, on the podium:

Weekend 1: https://shop.slso.org/7396

Weekend 2: https://shop.slso.org/7399

Of course, before St. Louis, there's Boston next weekend:

https://www.bso.org/events/dvorak-szymanowski-lutoslawski

This all assumes, of course, that COVID or anything else doesn't up-end matters.

Playing Szymanowski VC 2 in Sheffield tonight with Halle/Elder - not far off sold out a measure of her appeal. I suspect were she playing one of the main repertoire concertos it would be .

[kuligin]

Heard this programme last night in Manchester. Hall fuller than usual and a very good performance by all concerned, the Szymanowski is a superb piece one of his best works, only eclipsed by the Brahms, played with a smaller ensemble than of old, so woodwind and horns well the fore, very exciting. I always find much of this Symphony melancholic, it tends always to be described as care free.

[ahinton]

Playing Szymanowski VC 2 in Sheffield tonight with Halle/Elder - not far off sold out a measure of her appeal. I suspect were she playing one of the main repertoire concertos it would be .

She played the even finer (IMHO) first Szymanowski concerto when still in her 'teens; she and her friend the outstanding Alina Ibragimova have had both Szymanowski concerti in their respective repertoires for quite some time now.

[bluestateprommer]

The recent Boston Symphony Orchestra with Nicola Benedetti and Karina Canellakis is available to listen to via WCRB:

https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-11-10/the-symphony-hall-debuts-of-canellakis-and-benedetti-with-the-bso

I think the rule is 30 days from the day of broadcast, so maybe 2 weeks left to listen. IMHO, NB's performance of Szymanowski's VC # 2 confirms the good opinions expressed previously in this thread.