Lamentations: The Orpheus Chamber Singers perform music for Holy Week in Dallas

By Bachtrack reviewer, 25 March 2013

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Reviewed at St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Dallas on 23 March 2013

Victoria, Tenebrae Responsories (selection)

Gesualdo, Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday (selection)

Gesualdo, Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday (selection)

de Lassus, Cor meum

Distler, Der Jahreskreis: Jesus, I will ponder now

Pärt, De Profundis

Mealor, O vos omnes

MacMillan, Give me justice

Pärt, Da pacem Domine

Pärt, Trivium, for organ

Palestrina, Super flumina Babylonis

Palestrina, Sicut cervus (and Sitvit anima mea)

Pärt, Berliner Messe (Agnus dei)

Orpheus Chamber Singers

Donald Krehbiel, Conductor

Scott Dettra, Organ

Drew Lang, Percussion

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.

***11

Nelson Goerner shines with the CBSO and Rachmaninov's Rhapsody

Robert Gainer, 9th April

The CBSO present the work of three European émigré composers of the 1930s and 40s, who reimagined their musical influences with contrasting approaches and results.

****1

Andris Nelsons and the BSO arrive in New York, with baggage in tow

Cameron Kelsall, 9th April

In his first New York appearance since the termination of his contract as BSO Music Director, Nelsons courts public sympathy and makes some thrilling music.

***11

Karabits and Szeps-Znaider carouse with the LPO

Christopher Woodley, 8th April

The sparkle of Max Bruch's Fecond Violin Concerto and the drama of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony overcome the gloom of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s dark forebodings.

****1

Savall conducts Beethoven and Haydn at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 3rd April

Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge is paired with Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte, a journey from agony to transcendence in which the agony proves the more honest companion.

***11

Portraits and pictures from Ibragimova, Gardner and the LPO

Roy Westbrook, 1st April

From Three Screaming Popes to Pictures at an Exhibition, a pair of works inspired by paintings frame a violin concerto by Béla Bartók at London's Southbank Centre.

****1

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