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Artículos de Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall is a classical music critic based in Philadelphia. He has been writing for Bachtrack since 2019. In addition to his career in journalism, Cameron teaches in the Theatre Arts Program at the University of Pennsylvania. You can follow him on Twitter at @CameronPKelsall.

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A good walk spoiled: anemic Beethoven and Haydn in Philadelphia

Por Cameron Kelsall, 19 noviembre 2023
Guest conductor David Robertson led ponderous accounts of the "Pastoral" Symphony and Haydn's Cello Concerto no. 1, alongside a new work by the promising American composer Reena Esmail.
**111
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Davidsen and Stemme anchor an extraordinary Jenůfa at Lyric Opera of Chicago

Por Cameron Kelsall, 12 noviembre 2023
Claus Guth's production foregrounds the regimented, repressive world that drives the plot of Janáček’s tragic masterpiece.
*****
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Fresh eyes on Rachmaninov, Sibelius and Glass from John Storgårds in Chicago

Por Cameron Kelsall, 12 noviembre 2023
The Finnish conductor values attention to detail across three disparate 20th-century pieces, highlighting the uniform strength of the Chicago musicians.
*****
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason charts his own course in solo Philadelphia recital

Por Cameron Kelsall, 08 noviembre 2023
The gifted cellist offers a generous program that spans from JS Bach to Bob Marley, anchored by musical intelligence and brilliant technique.
****1
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Rune Bergmann leads a reverent Bruckner 7 in Baltimore

Por Cameron Kelsall, 06 noviembre 2023
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra dedicate their performance to former music director Yuri Temirkanov, who died last week.
***11
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Powerful Bruckner and uneven Haydn from Gražinytė-Tyla in Philadelphia

Por Cameron Kelsall, 22 octubre 2023
After a five-year absence, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra for a rare performance of Anton Bruckner's commanding Sixth Symphony.
***11
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Ode to earth: Philadelphia Orchestra premieres bassoon concerto Terra

Por Cameron Kelsall, 13 octubre 2023
A new work by Clarice Assad, featuring Principal Bassoon Daniel Matsukawa and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, comes sandwiched between impish Berio and complex Rachmaninov.
***11
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American voices: Gershwin, Still and the Philadelphia Orchestra

Por Cameron Kelsall, 07 octubre 2023
Yannick Nézet-Séguin premieres a new edition of William Grant Still's Fourth Symphony and joins Daniil Trifonov for Gershwin's rousing Concerto in F.
****1
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Philadelphia Orchestra season opens amid tense contract negotiation

Por Cameron Kelsall, 29 septiembre 2023
With a potential strike looming, Yo-Yo Ma joins Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin for a surprisingly tame performance of Shostakovich's psychologically dense Cello Concerto no. 1.
***11
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Opera Philadelphia's Unholy Wars creates a dialogue with Monteverdi

Por Cameron Kelsall, 24 septiembre 2023
Arab-American tenor Karim Sulayman devises a thoughtful pastiche that centers the perspective omitted from Early Modern depictions of the Middle East in music.
****1
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Quinn Kelsey triumphs in Opera Philadelphia's Simon Boccanegra

Por Cameron Kelsall, 23 septiembre 2023
In his role debut as the Genoan Doge, the American baritone continues to burnish his bona fides as the premier Verdi baritone of his generation.
****1
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Opera Philadelphia's 10 Days in a Madhouse confronts the madwoman myth

Por Cameron Kelsall, 22 septiembre 2023
In this world-premiere work, which opens Opera Philadelphia's Festival O23, composer Rene Orth and librettist Hannah Moscovitch dramatize and deconstruct the true story of Nellie Bly's commitment to a mental asylum.
*****
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The fat knight sings in Bard Music Festival's Sir John in Love

Por Cameron Kelsall, 14 agosto 2023
A two-week Ralph Vaughan Williams retrospective closed with his gentle, folksy spin on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.
***11
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Child's play: inventive, moving Rinaldo at Glimmerglass

Por Cameron Kelsall, 31 julio 2023
Director Louisa Proske refracts Handel's tale of warlords and witches through the prism of a juvenile dream world, aided by a game cast headed by Anthony Roth Costanzo.
****1
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Saint-Saëns rarity Henry VIII takes the crown at Bard SummerScape

Por Cameron Kelsall, 22 julio 2023
Conductor Leon Botstein and director Jean-Roumain Vesperini treat this Tudor soap opera with appropriate grandeur, while a top-notch cast deliver the vocal goods.
****1
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An entertaining but uneven Carmina Burana at Tanglewood

Por Cameron Kelsall, 16 julio 2023
Andris Nelsons highlights the spirited wit of Orff's orchestration, but inconsistent singing from soloists and chorus leaves something to be desired.
***11
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Black composers take center-stage in Baltimore Symphony season finale

Por Cameron Kelsall, 19 junio 2023
Artistic advisor James Conlon presents a triptych of works by Adolphus Hailstork, Alvin Singleton and Joel Thompson next to an edgy, ironic reading of Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony.
***11
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Musical journeys with Berlioz and Gabriela Lena Frank in Philadelphia

Por Cameron Kelsall, 14 mayo 2023
The Philadelphia Orchestra closed its season by pairing Berlioz's epic Symphonie Fantastique with Walkabout, a concerto for orchestra that investigates composer-in-residence Frank's Peruvian heritage.
*****
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A Brucknerian mass at the Philadelphia Orchestra

Por Cameron Kelsall, 06 mayo 2023
Yannick Nézet-Séguin combines the composer's unfinished Ninth Symphony, Te Deum and the motet Christus factus est to create an ultimate realization of religious faith and artistic expression.
****1
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Maria João Pires exudes elegance and grace in Cleveland recital

Por Cameron Kelsall, 04 mayo 2023
The semi-retired pianist offered a generous program of Schubert and Debussy that showcased her technical prowess and interpretive gifts.
*****
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