A triple serving of Salome from Fabien Gabel in Detroit

By Phillip Nones, 23 April 2022

Loading, please wait...

See full listing

“a big-boned interpretation with dramatic sweep and thrilling climaxes”

Reviewed at Orchestra Hall, Detroit on 22 April 2022

Bonis, Salomé, Op.100

Hillborg, Cello Concerto (US premiere)

Barrière, Sonata no. 10 in G major, for two cellos (excerpt)

Strauss R., Salome, Op.54: Dance of the seven veils

Schmitt, La Tragédie de Salomé

Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Fabien Gabel, Conductor

Bignamini conducts Detroit Symphony in a resplendent Beethoven 9

Sam Jacobson, 14th May

DSO music director Jader Bignamini leads his ensemble in the glory of Beethoven’s Ninth, prefaced by a recent work written as a companion piece to the symphony.

****1

France meets Russia at the Detroit Symphony

Erica Miner, 3rd December

Enrique Mazzola conducts an intriguing combination of a French work and a Russian work with a French title focusing on turn-of-the-century France.

***11

The concerto reconstructed: Detroit Symphony plays Sorey premiere

Annie Nikunen, 6th November

DSO plays Florence Price's Five Folksongs in Counterpoint and performs the world premiere of Tyshawn Sorey's For Marcos Balter for violin and orchestra with Jennifer Koh.

*****

Jacquelyn Stucker thrills in Strauss with the Detroit Symphony

Timothy Robson, 23rd October

Donald Runnicles conducted an imaginative chamber version of Strauss' testamentary Lieder, plus Elgar's own take on the concerto grosso form in his Introduction and Allegro.

***11

Jader Bignamini makes a strong impression with the Detroit Symphony

Timothy Robson, 18th September

In one of his first assignments as Music Director in Detroit, Bignamini conducts rarely-heard works by two Americans, along with an 18th-century Classical symphony by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

***11

Shostakovich the stand-out in a half-hearted Detroit program

Brian Wigman, 10th December

An uninspired evening of classics, that nonetheless showed off the many sides of Shostakovich.

**111

More reviews...

Phillip Nones

Phillip Nones studied piano from age six, also playing percussion in educational and civic groups before moving to a rural area of the USA in 1990, where performance opportunities were few. Recently he has started performing again, participating in “side-by-side” orchestra performances and playing percussion in the World Doctors' Orchestra. His personal collection of music includes over 5,000 classical albums in all formats (CDs, LPs, 78s), plus downloads. In his professional life, he heads up a marketing communications firm in the state of Maryland. He blogs about the French composer Florent Schmitt here.

A triple serving of Salome from Fabien Gabel and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra