Pulcinella dances home: Charles Dutoit's Swiss homage to Stravinsky

By Roy Westbrook, 26 February 2021

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“the 'Turkish' intervention that gave the work its nickname had the appropriate Levantine levity”

Reviewed at LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura: Sala Teatro, Lugano on 25 February 2021

Stravinsky, Concerto in E flat major for chamber orchestra "Dumbarton Oaks"

Mozart, Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major "Turkish", K219

Stravinsky, Pulcinella

Orchestra della Svizzera italiana

Charles Dutoit, Conductor

Alena Baeva, Violin

Michela Antenucci, Soprano

David Ferri Durà, Tenor

Enrico Di Geronimo, Bass

Lean, unsentimental Tchaikovsky from Krzysztof Urbański in Lugano

Mark Pullinger, 25th March

Krzysztof Urbański gives neat and tidy performances of three Tchaikovsky works with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, but are they a little too anaemic?

***11

Argerich, Dutoit y la Orchestra della Svizzera italiana en Ibermúsica

Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 18th March

Con Martha Argerich como figura de excepción, la Orchestra della Svizzera italiana ofreció un programa que sacó lo mejor del conjunto.

*****

Am Original orientiert: Anna Vinnitskaya mit Rachmaninow in Lugano

Thomas Schacher, 11th April

Die Pianistin beruft sich bei ihrer Rachmaninow-Interpretation auf den Komponisten selbst. Und Chefdirigent Markus Poschner demonstriert mit dem OSI seine eigene Sicht auf die Brahms-Symphonien.

***11

Plaudits and a promising residency for the Czech Philharmonic

Frank Kuznik, 25th September

The orchestra doesn't miss a beat in opening the season with a substitute conductor Charles Dutoit and a dashing new artist-in-residence in Daniil Trifonov.

****1

Argerich and Dutoit demonstrate that vitality is ageless

Edward Sava-Segal, 18th September

Martha Argerich returns to the Enescu Festival for one of the pillars of her repertory, Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, in a buoyant performance.

***11

Argerich, Dutoit and Russian revelry in Hamburg

Alexander Hall, 28th June

Argerich is predictably a force of nature in Tchaikovsky and Dutoit shows his mettle in Ravel and Stravinsky.

****1

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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.