Donmar theater performance

The evening was closed with a stunning performance of Beethoven’s opus 132 by a string quartet of the Soloists of the Philharmonia Orchestra. With fitting drama and atmosphere, they were lit by just a single bulb from an overhead light. I marvelled at the exuberance and obvious joy with which they played and I was especially taken by David Cohen’s performance on cello, not least by him performing in stockinged feet with his boots by the spike. Very cool.

So, a reading of Eliot’s finest work accompanied by a Beethoven piece to make your bones tingle. Probably one of the best ways to wind down after a funeral.

Only at the Donmar. Bravo.

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Philharmonia/Halffter/Cohen, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

By Robert Maycock

Tuesday, 6 March 2007

The classic was Witold Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto. Written for Mstislav Rostropovich in 1970, it has been taken up by surprisingly few colleagues. Perhaps the dedicatee was a hard act to follow, or perhaps it is just that Lutoslawski has gone out of fashion since he died in 1994, but as presented by the orchestra’s principal cellist David Cohen it won over and thrilled its listeners.

While the composer used to play down the dramatic metaphors with which he once described it to Rostropovich, the music unfolds like a gripping narrative. The soloist plays for several minutes, until the trumpets launch an aggressive series of interruptions. Then he has to raise his game as the full orchestra picks a fight. In a final show of defiance, the orchestral music becomes deliberately grotesque, in a way that belies Lutoslawski’s usual delicate touch and sounds dated. But the cello’s role remains fresh and affecting.

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Network 08.01.2010

“…Unlike the First Concerto,
the Second has never established itself in
the regular repertoire, but, in the hands
of the masterly David Cohen, its eloquence
and beauty shone through. David brought
out the smiling melancholy of the piece,
and eloquently expressed the composer’s
troubled thoughts. …”