Louis Langrée begins final week with Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra

Louis Langrée and Randall Goosby

Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra

By David Wolfson, 09 August 2023

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“a Romanticism for the post-ironic age”

Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, New York City on 8 August 2023

Coleman, Fanfare for Uncommon Times

Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35

Perkinson, Louisiana Blues Strut: A Cakewalk

Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384: Overture

Lully, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: excerpts

Kodály, Dances of Galánta

Randall Goosby, Violin

Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra

Louis Langrée, Conductor

Contrasting halves from Mostly Mozart Orchestra and Heyward

Edward Sava-Segal, 4th August

Jessie Montgomery's 2016 Records from a Vanishing City enthralls, Barber’s Violin Concerto is exquisite; Schumann's Rhenish disappoints.

***11

In New York, Gemma New makes “Mostly Mozart” mostly magic

David Wolfson, 1st August

Gemma New makes a positive impressive in the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra's lively rendition of the “Prague” Symphony.

****1

Langrée pairs ambitious premiere with uneven Mass at Mostly Mozart

David Wolfson, 25th July

The world premiere of Iraqi-American composer Amir ElSaffar's ambitious Dhikra (Remembrance) very nearly succeeds in its ambitions.

****1

Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra offers a Requiem for itself

David Wolfson, 5th August

Amid an uncertain future for the Mostly Mozart Festival, conductor Louis Langrée led a fiery program that overflowed with rage rather than grief.

****1

Mozart and Brahms shine in a bold, romantic glow

Linda Holt, 30th July

Romanticized but highly enjoyable Mozart performances, monumental Brahms, but more gusto than tenderness characterized the program.

****1

Mostly Mozart: Bartók, Vivaldi and... Scandinavian folk music?

David Wolfson, 27th July

The idea of reframing a warhorse of the classical repertory isn't a bad one. Theatre and opera goers have their modern-dress versions of Shakespeare and Mozart. Why not try it with Vivaldi?

***11

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David Wolfson

David Wolfson holds a PhD in composition from Rutgers University, and has taught at Rutgers University, Montclair State University and Hunter College. He is enjoying an eclectic career, having composed opera, musical theatre, touring children’s musicals, and incidental music for plays; choral music, band music, orchestral music, chamber music, art songs, and music for solo piano; comedy songs, cabaret songs and one memorable score for an amusement park big-headed-costumed-character show. You can find more information here.