Chicago Symphony ranges from insipid to extraordinary at Carnegie Hall

Par David Wolfson, 17 novembre 2019

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“Her English horn of a mezzo evoked textures from rose petals to titanium”

Critique faite à Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York, le 15 novembre 2019

Bizet, Symphony in C "Roma"

Berlioz, La Mort de Cléopâtre

Respighi, Les Pins de Rome (I pini di Roma), P141

Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano

Riccardo Muti, Direction, Direction musicale

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti et Chicago, un couple légendaire à la Philharmonie

Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, 13th January

Dans un programme « italien » qui associait la création française d'une œuvre de Glass à des partitions de Mendelssohn et Strauss, le chef et l'orchestre ont montré leur singularité.

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Chicago et Muti à la Philharmonie : puissance et robustesse !

Augustin Javel, 17th January

Le Chicago Symphony Orchestra et Riccardo Muti ont montré tout leur savoir-faire dans une soirée Wagner-Hindemith-Dvořák éclatante – quoique parfois clinquante.

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Un triomphe pour Muti à Pleyel

Constance Clara Guibert, 26th October

Des bravos fusaient déjà à l’entrée de Muti sur scène. Plongés dans un Oiseau de feu légendaire, fascinant, évident, puis littéralement soulevés par un bis patriotique chargé de sens et d'énergie, les spectateurs de Pleyel ne se remettront pas aisément de la venue du maestro.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra music on death: whimper then bang

Graham Meyer, 9th April

Jakub Hrůša leads the CSO in pedestrian Janáček and Rachmaninov, but Strauss's Four Last Songs and Wagner's Tristan excerpts send audiences home deeply touched.

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Klaus Mäkelä is speaking... Chicago is listening

Graham Meyer, 19th February

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Music Director Designate juxtaposes his Finnish countryman's music on their shared national epic, the Kalevala, with the heroic life limned in the tone poem of Richard Strauss.

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Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago

Graham Meyer, 4th December

A strong world premiere of Aucoin's evocative and immediate Song of the Reappeared, a concerto for voice written for soprano Julia Bullock which sets vivid imagery by a poet who suffered under authoritarianism.

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David Wolfson

David Wolfson holds a PhD in composition from Rutgers University, and has taught at Rutgers University, Montclair State University and Hunter College. He is enjoying an eclectic career, having composed opera, musical theatre, touring children’s musicals, and incidental music for plays; choral music, band music, orchestral music, chamber music, art songs, and music for solo piano; comedy songs, cabaret songs and one memorable score for an amusement park big-headed-costumed-character show. You can find more information here.