Dudamel leads LA Phil in exuberant celebration of Día de los Muertos

Ángela Aguilar and Gustavo Dudamel

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic

By Sam Jacobson, 03 November 2024

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“hard to imagine a better advocate for this repertoire than this orchestra and conductor”

Reviewed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles on 1 November 2024

Villa-Lobos, Chôros no. 10, "Rasga o Coração"

Ortiz, Yanga

Revueltas, La noche de los mayas

Grant Gershon, Artistic Director

Jenny Wong, Artistic Director

Ángela Aguilar, Soprano

Tambuco

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor

A cerebral bacchanalia: Young's bold, brainy Messiaen at Disney Hall

Néstor Castiglione, 10th April

Simone Young's take on Messiaen's Turangalîla with the Los Angeles Philharmonic proves a night to remember.

*****

Dudamel and Catalan choirs dazzle in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis

Néstor Castiglione, 20th February

In Los Angeles, Gustavo Dudamel conducts Beethoven's Missa solemnis for the first time... and it proves worth the wait.

*****

Shock, spectacle and endurance: Yuja Wang and Thomas Adès at full tilt

Laurence Vittes, 8th February

If Prokofiev’s original intention in his Second Piano Concerto was shock and awe, Yuja Wang gives exactly the right performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

***11

John Adams leads Americana, past and present, with LA Phil

Néstor Castiglione, 23rd January

Compelling as a composer and conductor, Adams restored Roy Harris' Third Symphony to the Los Angeles repertoire, alongside one of his most recent works.

*****

Salonen and the LA Philharmonic take on the forces of nature

Néstor Castiglione, 9th January

Reflections of nature and humanity's place within it in Salonen's 2026 return

****1

Winter Daydreams and a Jazz Age Nutcracker at Disney Hall

Néstor Castiglione, 18th December

A feast of Tchaikovsky with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under guest conductor Thomas Wilkins.

****1

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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.

Dudamel leads Los Angeles Philharmonic in exuberant celebration of Día de los Muertos