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2023-11-25 07:24:00
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Gustavo?
Davies Symphony HallPhoto by Lisa HirschBack in April, 2022, I reviewed a San Francisco Symphony program led by guest conductor Gustavo Dudamel, the outgoing music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. That program consisted of Mozart's Prague Symphony and Mahler's 5th. Among other things, I wrote:The [Mahler] Adagietto lacked sinew and a sense of the underlying structure of the movement and seemed not just slow, but laggard. This was an issue for the entire work: Dudamel seemed to be conducting moment by moment, without illuminating the larger structure of each movement and the symphony as a whole. While his conducting wasn’t metronomic, he lacked an organic sense of the underlying pulse of each movement and thus lacked the kind of graceful rhythmic flexibility within a phrase that good Mahler conducting needs. And he too often overlooked subtle dynamic changes as well.Dudamel was back at SFS tonight, for this program:Gabriela Ortiz, KauyumariGonzalo Grau, Odisea, […]
2023-07-07 00:00:00
Shostakovich, Sibelius, Smetana & Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works (Paavo Berglund, Jorma Panula, Cristina Ortiz et al)
Dmitri Shostakovich:1.01 - 1.04 Symphony No. 11 in G minor, op.103 'The Year 1905' [66.30]1.05 - 1.07 Three Fantastic Dances for Piano, op.5 * [3'25]2.01 - 2.03 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 54 [30'03]2.04 - 2.07 Concerto No.1 in C minor for piano, trumpet and strings, op.35 *^ [21'54]2.08 - 2.10 Piano Concerto No.2 in F major, op.102 * [19'47]Cristina Ortiz- piano*, Rodney Senior- trumpet^, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo BerglundEMI CDS747790-8 [recorded 1975 and 1978; this compilation first issued in 1987][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet sourced from archive.org]Recording venue: Guildhall, Southampton, UKRecording engineer: Stuart Eltham; Producers: John Fraser and John WillanJean Sibelius:01 - 04 Symphony No. 4 in A minor, op.63 * [35'11]05 - 08 Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, op.82 ^ [30'19]Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Berglund*; Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jorma Panula^Finlandia FACD004 [recorded in 1968; this compilation […]
2023-07-02 20:35:00
I should have gotten this out last month, when the Ojai Music Festival was live, but I did not - oh, well! The streams are still available. As usually, the programs are fabulous, and I wish Ojai were in almost any month but June, which is always packed in the SF area.The streams are all free! Here's the list of available concerts and repertory that Ojai circulated some time ago, but note that there might have been updates.Thursday, June 8 8:00pm | LIQUID BORDERS Libbey Bowl Rhiannon Giddens vocals | Kayhan Kalhor kamancheh | Attacca Quartet | Steven Schick percussion/director| red fish blue fish percussion Gabriela Ortiz Liquid Borders Franz Joseph HAYDN String Quartet in F major, Op. 77 No. 2 Hob. III:82 Zakir HUSSAIN Pallavi (arr. Reena Esmail) Philip GLASS First Movement from String Quartet No. 3 (“Mishima”) Colin JACOBSEN Beloved do not let me be discouraged Geeshie WILEY Last Kind Words Rhiannon GIDDENS Lullaby David CROSBY/Nathan SCHRAM Where We Are Not (arr. Nathan Schram) Caroline SHAW Stem and Root from The Evergreen John ADAMS Judah to Ocean, Rag the Bone from John’s Book of Alleged Dances SQUAREPUSHER Xetaka 1 Friday, June […]
2022-10-27 17:12:59
Dudamel led his Los Angeles Philharmonic in two concerts at Carnegie Hall that included a scorching New York premiere by Gabriela Ortiz.
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