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Eröffnung der Mendelssohn-Festtage 2016: Leipziger Lobgesang

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Reviewed at Gewandhaus: Großer Saal, Leipzig on 15 September 2016
Mendelssohn, As pants the hart (Wie der Hirsch schreit) Psalm 42 in F major, Op.42
Mendelssohn, Symphony no. 2 in B flat major, "Lobgesang" (Hymn of Praise), Op.52
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Lucy Crowe, Soprano
Jurgita Adamonytė, Mezzo-soprano
Michael Spyres, Tenor
Andrew Manze, Conductor
Monteverdi Choir
Isabelle Faust shines, Nelsons and the Gewandhaus disappoint
**111
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Oper Leipzig
****1
Total Shostakovich in Leipzig
*****
Star conductor: Blomstedt returns to the Leipzig Gewandhaus
*****
Spellbinding Parsifal caps Oper Leipzig's massive Wagner 22 Festival
****1
Sublime Strauss from Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester
****1
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