collected stories draws to a close with John Cage and a David Lang world première

By Rebecca Lentjes, 30 April 2014

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“the quintessential concert: chance operations, silliness, spirituality, virtuosity”

Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Zankel, New York City on 29 April 2014

Cage, Indeterminacy

Cage, 27'10.554"

Lang, Mystery Sonatas

Paul Lazar, Actor

Steve Schick, Percussion

Augustin Hadelich, Violin

David Lang, Director

A ghost of an opera at BAM

Jacob Slattery, 7th September

David Lang’s new opera the loser opened the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday night, but simply lacked theatricality.

*1111

Hadelich delivers exhilarating Barber concerto in Philadelphia

Cameron Kelsall, 11th January

Guest conductor Dalia Stasevska conducts an earthbound reading of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.

***11

BBC Philharmonic opens season with bagpipes, boldness and brilliance

Leighton Jones, 20th September

John Storgårds conducts Wolfe and Prokofiev in the season opening concert, before a magnificent Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony.

****1

Sculpted silences: Britten and Brahms under Jaap van Zweden in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 20th June

From the very first bars of Britten’s Violin Concerto, Augustin Hadelich impresses in Britten's Violin Concerto, yet Jaap van Zweden's Brahms 4 appears misaligned.

***11

Bancroft and the Royal Stockholm Phil brass shine in Bruckner

David Karlin, 24th October

The RSPO's Chief Conductor leads an impressive Bruckner 4. With Augustin Hagelich, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is lighter fare, but trips merrily.

****1

Augustin Hadelich’s Sibelius soars the heights at the Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 16th October

Karina Canellakis makes her debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a programme full of extremes.

***11

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Rebecca Lentjes

Rebecca graduated from New York University in 2012, where she studied Music and Romance Languages. She now works as an assistant editor at RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) and as manager of contemporary music collective ensemble mise-en.