| | PROM 57: Matthias Pintscher, Anton Bruckner, Frank Peter Zimmerman (violin) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Throughout the evening it was a sheer delight just to watch the BBC SO’s principle guest conductor, Jukka-Pekka Saraste who has a style which is elegant, graceful and economic, almost shy and introverted, but nevertheless totally in control of his forces, maintaining a crystalline, steady beat. |
 | | This was the UK premiere of ‘en sourdine’ – music for violin and orchestra (2002) - by the German composer Matthias Pintscher (born 1971) and dedicated to its Prom soloist, Frank Peter Zimmermann who gave the work its first performance in February of this year with the Berlin Philharmonic under Peter Eötvos. |
 | | In fact the soloist and orchestra produced ‘mutant’ sounds which came across as alien to the human ear, with the brass and percussion making dumb animal noises while the soloist’s sour sounds mutated away from the human: I have never before heard sounds like those produced by Zimmerman. |
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