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Some gems and revelations in the National Symphony Orchestra's “dance” program

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Reviewed at Kennedy Center: Concert Hall, Washington on 7 November 2019
Strauss II, Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), Op.325
Piazzolla, Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires)
Price, Dances in the Canebrakes
Piazzolla, Libertango
Stravinsky, Circus Polka (for a young elephant)
Shchedrin, Two Tangos by Albéniz
Ellington, The Nutcracker Suite for Big Band
Nurit Bar-Josef, Violin
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, Conductor
Lush strings, bright Beethoven: NSO and Noseda at Carnegie Hall
****1
Young and Lamsma bring levity to National Symphony Orchestra
****1
NSO triumphs with Boyer and Lang Lang
****1
National Symphony makes a fine-sounding digital return to the stage
****1
Rollicking Mahler Fifth may have just put NSO on the global map
*****
Tetzlaff redefines clarity with the National Symphony Orchestra
****1
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