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Gabriela Ortiz' terrific cello concerto Dzonot receives its New York premiere by Alisa Weilerstein and the LA Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at Carnegie Hall. 

Weilerstein’s playing is animated and on point, joyous and precise in an engaging solo recital. 

Elgar’s elegiac cello concerto with Alisa Weilerstein’s majestic assumption of the solo part, coupled with a late Romantic masterpiece in the capable hands of Jakub Hrůša and the Czech Philharmonic.

Alisa Weilerstein shows why Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations deserves to be considered a concerto, while Alan Gilbert’s view of the Eroica with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester raises some doubts.

Jakub Hrůša conducted the New York Philharmonic in a program of lesser-known works from well-loved composers. While Hrůša especially made the case for the Dvořák, the evening as a whole did not add up .