Vienna goes to Hollywood: Oksana Lyniv conducts the Wiener Symphoniker

Oksana Lyniv conducts the Wiener Symphoniker

Gil Shaham, Oksana Lyniv and the Wiener Symphoniker

Oksana Lyniv conducts the Wiener Symphoniker

By Mark Pullinger, 06 May 2023

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“Tinseltown glitter meets Klimt meets Budapest café, naughty but nice”

Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Vienna on 5 May 2023

Kolomiiets, Espenbaum

Korngold, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35

Bach, Violin partita no. 3 in E major, BWV1006: Gavotte en Rondeau

Brahms, Piano Quartet no. 1 in G minor, Op.25 (orch. Schoenberg)

Gil Shaham, Violin

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Oksana Lyniv, Conductor

Resplendent Strauss from Canellakis and the Wiener Symphoniker

Mark Pullinger, 17th December

Leif Ove Andsnes joins the Vienna Symphony in the Musikverein's Golden Hall for a glowing account of Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto before a terrific Tod und Verklärung.

*****

Wiener Symphoniker parties in style at the Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 3rd November

Jan Lisiecki joins Petr Popelka and the touring Wiener Symphoniker at the Concertgebouw for Grieg's Piano Concerto.

****1

Stefan Herheim’s bold Fledermaus at MusikTheater an der Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 13th October

Herheim’s Fledermaus is a risky experiment that, miraculously, works – at least in a city that knows it so intimately.

****1

Grigorian and Akhmetshina dazzle in a secular Norma

Chanda VanderHart, 19th February

In a week where Vienna welcomes two new productions of Bellini's Norma, MusikTheater an der Wien sets a high bar with Vasily Barkhatov's staging.

****1

A spectacular Freischütz in Bregenz

Thomas Schacher, 19th July

At the Bregenz Festival, director Philpp Stölzl gives us a radical updating of the classic, with an interpretation many miles away from Weber.

***11

Love in time of the drug wars: a contemporary Tancredi at Bregenz

Orsolya Gyárfás, 18th July

Anna Goryachova and Mélissa Petit shine as doomed lovers Tancredi and Amenaide, while Jan Philipp Gloger's contemporary setting has much to offer, but doesn't quite nail the landing.

***11

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.