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Stiff Ravel, but ebullient Brahms–Schoenberg from Paavo Järvi and the LA Phil

Seong-Jin Cho
© Elizabeth Asher , courtesy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Paavo Järvi conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic
© Elizabeth Asher , courtesy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
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“what a stunning, precision instrument of an orchestra they have become”
Reviewed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles on 13 February 2025
Bacewicz, Concerto for string orchestra
Ravel, Piano Concerto in G major
Ravel, A la manière de Chabrier
Brahms, Piano Quartet no. 1, arr. for orchestra by Schoenberg
Seong-Jin Cho, Piano
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Paavo Järvi, Conductor
LA Phil celebrates the California spirit with Andrés Orozco-Estrada
****1
A cerebral bacchanalia: Young's bold, brainy Messiaen at Disney Hall
*****
Dudamel and Catalan choirs dazzle in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
*****
Shock, spectacle and endurance: Yuja Wang and Thomas Adès at full tilt
***11
John Adams leads Americana, past and present, with LA Phil
*****
Salonen and the LA Philharmonic take on the forces of nature
****1
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