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Tan Dun and Shostakovich form a dark, compelling programme in Vienna

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Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Vienna on 25 April 2014
Dun, Percussion Concerto, “The Tears of Nature”
Shostakovich, Symphony no. 10 in E minor, Op.93
Krzysztof Urbański, Conductor
Martin Grubinger, Percussion
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Resplendent Strauss from Canellakis and the Wiener Symphoniker
*****
Wiener Symphoniker parties in style at the Concertgebouw
****1
Stefan Herheim’s bold Fledermaus at MusikTheater an der Wien
****1
Grigorian and Akhmetshina dazzle in a secular Norma
****1
A spectacular Freischütz in Bregenz
***11
Love in time of the drug wars: a contemporary Tancredi at Bregenz
***11
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