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Minnesota Orchestra Celebrates Sibelius at Carnegie Hall
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- Parent Category: Film and the Arts
- Category: Reviews
- Published on Wednesday, 16 March 2016 15:25
- Written by Jack Angstreich
Osmo Vänskä
The excellent musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra returned to Carnegie Hall on the evening of Thursday, March 3rd, for a valuable program devoted to work by Jean Sibelius, in celebration of the sesquicentennial of his birth, with an audience seemingly packed with ardent Minnesotan fans of the ensemble — all this under the admirable direction of Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä, perhaps the premier specialist in the orchestral music of this composer.
A lucid account of the rarely played, intriguing Third Symphony opened the concert auspiciously. Star soloist Hilary Hahn then took the stage for an accomplished performance of the more familiar, impressive Violin Concerto. The vigorous applause for the virtuoso was rewarded with a compelling rendition of the Sarabande from J.S. Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor.
The second half of the program featured another neglected work, the precocious and Romantic First Symphony, heard here in a confident performance. The enthusiastic ovation was met by the conductor exclaiming "Sibelius" before performing the first of three outstanding encores by that composer: the very seldom heard, beautiful The Countess's Portrait followed by two exquisite selections from the incidental music to William Shakespeare's The Tempest —"Interlude" (Miranda) and "Cortège."
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