Bignamini conducts Detroit Symphony in a resplendent Beethoven 9

By Sam Jacobson, 18 May 2022

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“Bignamini guided a tautly focused reading with dramatic urgency and often searing intensity”

Reviewed at Orchestra Hall, Detroit on 14 May 2022

Lash, In Hopes of Finding the Sun

Beethoven, Symphony no. 9 in D minor "Choral", Op.125

Ailyn Pérez, Soprano

Sasha Cooke, Mezzo-soprano

Saimir Pirgu, Tenor

Luiz Ottavio Faria, Bass

Performers from Opera MODO & Audivi

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Jader Bignamini, Conductor

A triple serving of Salome from Fabien Gabel in Detroit

Phillip Nones, 22nd April

The French conductor leads a “Salome-centric” concert high on drama and color, joined by Nicolas Altstaedt in presenting a cello concerto new to American audiences.

****1

France meets Russia at the Detroit Symphony

Erica Miner, 3rd December

Enrique Mazzola conducts an intriguing combination of a French work and a Russian work with a French title focusing on turn-of-the-century France.

***11

The concerto reconstructed: Detroit Symphony plays Sorey premiere

Annie Nikunen, 6th November

DSO plays Florence Price's Five Folksongs in Counterpoint and performs the world premiere of Tyshawn Sorey's For Marcos Balter for violin and orchestra with Jennifer Koh.

*****

Jacquelyn Stucker thrills in Strauss with the Detroit Symphony

Timothy Robson, 23rd October

Donald Runnicles conducted an imaginative chamber version of Strauss' testamentary Lieder, plus Elgar's own take on the concerto grosso form in his Introduction and Allegro.

***11

Jader Bignamini makes a strong impression with the Detroit Symphony

Timothy Robson, 18th September

In one of his first assignments as Music Director in Detroit, Bignamini conducts rarely-heard works by two Americans, along with an 18th-century Classical symphony by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

***11

Shostakovich the stand-out in a half-hearted Detroit program

Brian Wigman, 10th December

An uninspired evening of classics, that nonetheless showed off the many sides of Shostakovich.

**111

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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.