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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-08-15 02:49:53
Mercury Beats Heat
Raymond Feng (file photo) When the mercury rises, the Mercury Orchestra shows up at Sanders Theater. Since 2008, the ensemble has comprised volunteer musicians from other orchestras—the Lexington Symphony, the Boston Civic Symphony, the New England Philharmonic, for example—that have the summer off. Under co-founder and music director Channing Yu, Mercury plays once or twice each summer, focusing on big works from the romantic and early-modern repertoire: Mahler’s Second, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies, Brahms’s First and Third, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé. Last month, it was Prokofiev’s cantata Alexander Nevsky and the Shostakovich Tenth. Friday evening at Sanders, perhaps hoping to mitigate 95-degree weather, Yu and the orchestra remained in northern climes, starting with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture, moving to Scandinavia for the Grieg Piano Concerto, with 14-year-old Raymond Feng, and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2. It was a thoughtfully chosen program: all […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-01-11 12:08:07
The world’s busiest conductor? Perhaps not
Every January, the Bachtrack website publishes an analysis of its worldwide classical concert listings, 28,000 in all. The repertoire never changes much, but the maestro worksheets are worth consideration. According to Bachtrack, this man was the busiest conductor in 2015. He’s Jonathan McPhee and he’s triple-time music director of Boston Ballet, Lexington Symphony and Symphony New Hampshire. Bachtrack liested him conducting 28 times in December 2015 and plenty through the year. The site ranks Simon Rattle as the world’s second busiest and Valery Gergiev as third. We would gently challenge that placement. Gergiev has been known to conduct 49 times in a month – last April, in fact. Not all of his tour dates are listed on Bachtrack. By our count, he is by far the world’s busiest.
2015-05-15 14:33:00
[…] to live with awareness of that, or whether we live in denial, it shapes us. As Part’s notes on this piece reflect : I have written a lamento – not for the dead, but for the living, who have to deal with these issues for themselves. A lamento for us, struggling with the pain and hopelessness of the world. Here is the whole of Lamentate, in a version with Diana Liiv, piano. Lexington Symphony, conductor Jonathan McPhee. Sound quality not wonderful though From the crushing, weighty opening two movements, where it almost feels as if an implacable indifferent force will roll over the listeners, annihilating them, in the third movement small, fragile, simple, beautiful and hesitant pause filled lines of melody arise, carried by the solo piano. Later, these lines, are taken up, turn by turn, by other instruments. It’s almost like an offer and an acceptance […]
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