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A surprise debut, for conductor and audience both, in Dallas

By Bachtrack reviewer, 04 October 2014

With an artistic director forced to cancel in the middle of a weekend of concerts, duty called on his assistant conductor - and she clearly had done her homework.

***11

Dallas

French plus one: the Dallas Symphony in music of Fauré, Mozart, and Ravel

By Bachtrack reviewer, 01 March 2014

Extreme dynamics explored in Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Boléro presented by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Jaap van Zweden, complemented by Louis Lortie's Mozart.

****1

Dallas

Mahler, Brahms, and a belated Britten birthday in Dallas

By Bachtrack reviewer, 25 January 2014

Dallas Symphony Orchestra, led by Jaap van Zweden and featuring baritone Matthias Goerne, performed music by Britten, Mahler, and Brahms, in a concert where not enough was ultimately said, despite a strong return from Goerne.

***11

Dallas

An odd couple: Stravinsky and Saint-Saëns at the Dallas Symphony

By Bachtrack reviewer, 19 October 2013

The Dallas Symphony, now in its sixth season under Music Director Jaap van Zweden, welcomed his predecessor Andrew Litton back to conduct a weekend of Stravinsky and Saint-Saëns (music from two ballets and a violin concerto, respectively).

***11

Dallas

Serious music-making at the Meyerson: Dallas Symphony Orchestra play Barber and Mahler

By Bachtrack reviewer, 29 September 2013

For the first time in recent memory, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra presented a program this weekend without any blockbuster audience-favorite to be found on it.

***11

Dallas

Impressions: Debussy, Rodrigo and Prokofiev at the Dallas Symphony

By Bachtrack reviewer, 16 February 2013

After a series of Pops concerts featuring John Williams’ film scores, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra returned to standard classical fare this weekend with Canadian guest conductor Julian Kuerti. Debussy’s Ibéria never really got off the ground, but Mr Kuerti and the DSO had better luck in music by Joaquín Rodrigo and Prokofiev.

***11

Dallas

Sturm und Drang: Minor-Key Mozart at the Meyerson

By Bachtrack reviewer, 26 January 2013

Capping off their two-weekend Mozart Festival, the Dallas Symphony played three minor-key masterworks this weekend, plus one major-key selection. Music in minor keys is the exception to the Mozartian rule – only two each of the 27 piano concerti and 41 symphonies are in minor.

***11

Dallas

Turkish, sunny Wolfgang: Round One of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Mozart Festival

By Bachtrack reviewer, 19 January 2013

Verdi and Wagner may be turning 200 in 2013, but certainly that doesn’t make their music any more or less worth celebrating than it was last year, or will be in five years’ time. So why not mix things up and mark a prime number here and there? In honor of a certain upcoming 257th birthday, Jaap van Zweden led the Dallas Symphony Orchestra this weekend in the first of two programs comprising the DSO’s Mozart Festival.

****1

Dallas

A Romantic night out: Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and Brahms at the Dallas Symphony

By Bachtrack reviewer, 12 January 2013

Mirroring the January ritual of all who indulge in one final dessert-binge before dieting to honor ill-fated New Year’s resolutions, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra got plenty of Romanticism out of their system this weekend before their Mozart Festival, set to last the remainder of this month. They hosted two young guest artists, conductor Pablo González and violinist Nicola Benedetti, for works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms.

***11

Dallas

Vienna at the opera (and movies): Beethoven and Korngold with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra

By Bachtrack reviewer, 04 November 2012

Two Viennese masters, Beethoven and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, shared the stage in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s concerts this weekend. Maestro Jaap van Zweden conducted Beethoven’s Leonore Overture no. 3 and Symphony no. 5 in C minor, and in between these was joined by violinist Hilary Hahn for Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D major.

****1

Dallas

Russian Romantics: Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky in Dallas

By Bachtrack reviewer, 29 September 2012

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra have had a couple of high-profile guest performers in town for their most recent series of concerts. They presented works by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, a piano concerto and a symphony respectively, in a program that, although disastrously designed, was redeemed by some stellar playing.

***11

Dallas

Dallas Symphony Orchestra season opens with van Zweden and Joaquín Achúcarro

By Bachtrack reviewer, 15 September 2012

The fifth year of the Jaap van Zweden era at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra began this weekend with a program comprising audience favorites both flashy and serene. According to the printed program notes Mr. van Zweden, Music Director since 2008, selected “a program that demonstrates the superb technical and musical heights our orchestra has reached under his baton.

***11

Dallas

Music for Any Season: Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Dallas

By Bachtrack reviewer, 31 March 2012

Christmas may have inspired much of the greatest holiday-related popular music, but in the Classical tradition, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (to say nothing of his St. John Passion and Easter Oratorio) points toward the influence of Easter.

****1

Dallas

Expressive Inner and Outer Worlds: Adams, Schubert, Strauss, and Shostakovich in Dallas

By Bachtrack reviewer, 15 March 2012

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra opened their latest series on Thursday with works by John Luther Adams, Schubert, Richard Strauss, and Shostakovich. The German baritone Matthias Goerne joined the DSO and Artistic Director Jaap van Zweden for a performance that was moving and powerful enough to far outshine a couple of puzzling managerial decisions.

****1

Dallas

Steps Retraced: Adams, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky in Dallas

By Bachtrack reviewer, 18 February 2012

It was your standard evening at the symphony: a brief standalone selection for orchestra, a flashy concerto, and, after intermission, a weighty symphonic masterpiece. Well, it seemed so on paper at least.

****1

Dallas

A Fascinating Program of Mozart, Wagner and Debussy

By Bachtrack reviewer, 04 February 2012

In a concert featuring two works of Richard Wagner (one a concert piece, the other an adaptation from an opera score), the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under conductor Jaap van Zweden made their biggest statements in works by Mozart and Debussy. The fascinating program paired the Wagner works, one in each half, with those of the supposedly more “demure” high-classicist and arch-Impressionist.

***11

Dallas

Gregory Raden and Jaap van Zweden in works by Mozart and Schubert

By Bachtrack reviewer, 27 January 2012

On the two hundred and fifty-sixth birthday of Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, a voice over the loudspeaker announced the arrival of the more succinctly-named Emmitt Smith to the stage of Dallas’s Meyerson Symphony Center. Mr. Smith, the legendary former Dallas Cowboys running back and Super Bowl MVP, in turn introduced the true man of the evening, Dallas Symphony Orchestra Artistic Director Jaap van Zweden, recently named Musical America’s 2012 Conductor of the Year.

****1

Dallas

Style and Substance: Hannu Lintu at the Meyerson

By Bachtrack reviewer, 20 October 2011

Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu made a big impression in his début with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in a colorful program of Ravel, Chopin, and Stravinsky – Le Tombeau de Couperin , the Piano Concerto no. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21, and Petrushka, respectively.

****1

Dallas

Caution to the Wind: DSO’s Ambitious and Successful Opener

By Bachtrack reviewer, 10 September 2011

The standing ovation seemed to come with a good-natured caveat: “…but you didn’t need to show off!” This opening concert of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-12 season presented a program of daunting scope, challenging both to the musicians and their audience, with Brahms’ Piano Concerto no. 1 and Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony side by side.

****1

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