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The Sounds of Bavaria at Carnegie Hall
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- Parent Category: Film and the Arts
- Category: Reviews
- Published on Friday, 29 April 2016 04:56
- Written by Jack Angstreich
The accomplished musicians of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra gave an excellent concert at Carnegie Hall on the evening of Tuesday, April 19th, under the estimable direction of Mariss Jansons.
The program opened with a confident account of John Corigliano's interesting Fantasia on an Ostinato, spun out of the famous motif that haunts the slow movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. At the work's finish, the composer took the stage for a bow.
Also gratifying was the equally fine performance of Erich Korngold's beloved Violin Concerto, featuring the impressive soloist Leonidas Kavakos who obliged an appreciative audience with a superb encore, the magnificent Gavotte en Rondo from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 3 in E Major (Kavakos was also strong in the Violin Concerto of Jean Sibelius which he recently played with the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall).
The second half of the program surpassed the first with a lucid account of Antonín Dvorák's beautiful Symphony No. 8. A superb encore, the lovely "The Wild Bears" from Edward Elgar's The Wand of Youth Suite, brought the evening to its apotheosis. I greatly regret that illness prevented me from hearing this ensemble perform Dmitri Shostakovich's "Leningrad" Symphony on the following night.
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