Israel Camerata on tour in Australia

By Zoltán Szabó, 20 September 2016

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Reviewed at City Recital Hall, Sydney on 18 September 2016

Dvořák, Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104

Kopytman, Beyond All This

Haydn, Symphony No. 85 in B flat major "La Reine"

Israel Camerata Jerusalem Orchestra

Zvi Plesser, Cello

Avner Biron, Conductor

Impérial, Sunwook Kim ouvre le cycle Brahms aux Champs-Elysées

Alain Lompech, 14th October

Le jeune pianiste impose une présence faite d'une plénitude pianistique et spirituelle qui confirment ses premiers prix aux Concours Clara-Haskil et de Leeds.

*****

Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia

Christopher Woodley, 19th April

As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

*****

Nicholas McGegan brings delicacy and elegance to Mendelssohn

Erica Miner, 18th April

The Seattle Symphony offers an enchanting evening immersed in the joy and brilliance of both the young and the mature genius of Felix Mendelssohn.

****1

Picture postcard Spain from the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia

Phil Parker, 17th April

Vibrant, colourful music is played with every last ounce of enthusiasm as the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia rounds off its UK tour at Sheffield City Hall.

****1

Wrangling the octopus: Mahler’s Ninth with Sir Simon Rattle

Chanda VanderHart, 17th April

Less a symphony, more a force of nature, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a turbulent, yet spacious reading of Mahler's Ninth Symphony in the Musikverein.

****1

Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

****1

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Zoltán Szabó

Zoltán Szabó is a cellist and musicologist. Having migrated from his native Hungary to Australia in 1985, he worked with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney until 1991, when he became Principal Cello with Opera Australia. In 2017, he was awarded with a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD). Currently, he is teaching music history and musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Polished, if not inspiring: the Israel Camerata on tour in Australia