Baltic gusts in Milan: Paavo Järvi conducts Tchaikovsky

By James Imam, 12 September 2015

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“Paavo Järvi whips things up with windmill gestures, sending the sound skywards on a Baltic wind”

Reviewed at Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 11 September 2015

Brahms, Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major, Op.83

Chopin, Nocturne in C sharp minor, "Lento Con Gran Espressione", Op. posth, B 49

Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 5 in E minor, Op.64

Lars Vogt, Piano

Orchestre de Paris

Paavo Järvi, Conductor

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James Imam

James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.

Baltic gusts in Milan: Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris