John Luther Adams breathes life into Mostly Mozart Festival

By Rebecca Lentjes, 28 July 2014

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: David H Koch Theater, New York City on 26 July 2014

Adams, Sila: The Breath of the World (World première)

Doug Perkins, Director

Mark DeChiazza, Choreography

eighth blackbird

Inspiring collaboration of music and art

Ako Imamura, 18th January

Instrumental ensemble eighth blackbird performed Hand Eye, a new work by a group of young composers Sleeping Giant, accompanied by stunning visual images.

****1

eighth blackbird in challenging and pleasing Cleveland concert

Timothy Robson, 29th April

Works by Bryce Dessner, Ligeti, Steven Mackey and others create an intellectually stimulating evening of new music.

*****

Savall conducts Beethoven and Haydn at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 3rd April

Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge is paired with Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte, a journey from agony to transcendence in which the agony proves the more honest companion.

***11

Portraits and pictures from Ibragimova, Gardner and the LPO

Roy Westbrook, 1st April

From Three Screaming Popes to Pictures at an Exhibition, a pair of works inspired by paintings frame a violin concerto by Béla Bartók at London's Southbank Centre.

****1

Energy, precision and drama from the Philadelphia Orchestra

Susan Stempleski, 31st March

Marin Alsop is joined by pianist Hayato Sumino as she conducts the Philadelphians in an exhilarating program of works by John Adams, Gershwin and Prokofiev.

****1

Evgeny Kissin leaves a trail of happy hearts at the Barbican

Christopher Woodley, 31st March

With a spring in his step, Evgeny Kissin returns to Barbican Hall and gives well-wrought accounts of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.

****1

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Rebecca Lentjes

Rebecca graduated from New York University in 2012, where she studied Music and Romance Languages. She now works as an assistant editor at RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) and as manager of contemporary music collective ensemble mise-en.