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The Cincinnati Symphony play Des Canyons aux étoiles...

Matthias Pintscher and the Cincinnati Symphony

Elizabeth Freimuth

Par Sam Jacobson, 04 mars 2024

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“one was saturated with Messiaen’s colorful, iridescent language from the onset”

Critique faite à Music Hall, Cincinnati, le 1 mars 2024

Messiaen, Des Canyons aux étoiles

Matthias Pintscher, Direction

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Elizabeth Freimuth, Cor

David Fishlock, Percussions

Michael Culligan, Percussions

Le rêve américain de Louis Langrée à la Seine musicale

Tristan Labouret, 9th September

Dernière étape de leur tournée européenne, le Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra et son directeur musical Louis Langrée se produisaient à la Seine musicale. La bannière étoilée ne flottait pas sur l’île Seguin, mais c’était tout comme : le programme mettait exclusivement à l’honneur les musiques du « Nouveau Monde ».

*****

Cincinnati May Festival closes 150th season with a glorious Mahler 8

Sam Jacobson, 27th May

The May Festival pulls all the stops to close their sesquicentennial season with Mahler’s vast and triumphant Eighth Symphony.

****1

Requiem, eternal light and hummingbirds at Cincinnati May Festival

Sam Jacobson, 25th May

The Cincinnati May Festival pairs a deeply-felt Mozart Requiem with a new work for chorus and orchestra by Julia Adolphe.

****1

Remarkable survey of 20th-century works by the Cincinnati Symphony

Sam Jacobson, 29th October

The Cincinnati Symphony thoughtfully illuminates a diverse cross-section of 20th-century repertoire with conductor Michael Francis and pianist Behzod Abduraimov.

****1

Death and renewal: Mahler in Cincinnati

Cameron Kelsall, 27th March

Conductor Matthias Pintscher and soloists Michelle DeYoung and Sean Panikker offered a moving but uneven interpretation of Das Lied von der Erde.

***11

Langrée conducts Cincinnati Symphony in folk-inspired concert

Sam Jacobson, 26th February

The CSO packed much excitement into an hour-long program, featuring folk-inspired works of Walker and Kodály, along with the irresistible charm of Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto.

***11

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Sam Jacobson

Sam Jacobson has been writing for Bachtrack since 2015 and is currently in Pittsburgh, having previously lived throughout the Midwest. A keen traveler, he endeavors to see all the great orchestras and opera houses across the US and abroad. Outside of music, he works as a software engineer. He also maintains a blog which can be read here.