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Anne Akiko Meyers performed Arturo Marquez’s "Fandango" with the Grant Park Orchestra.
Gil Shaham performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.
Augustin Hadelich performed Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 with the Aspen Festival Orchestra.
Bomsori Kim performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at the Concertgebouw.
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Richard, click the linked names of the publications supplying the reviews and you will find your answer.
Thanks Bill!
Sorry for the oversight - I’ve added it - he played the Beethoven. Sounds like a wonderful concert!
I heard Gil Shaham give a very Paganini-inflected rendition of the Beethoven VC a few years ago at the Colorado Music Festival. It was the kind of rendition that's best listened to while wearing a napkin over the head to cover the shameful enjoyment.
I heard cellist Alisa Weilerstein give a pretty disjointed Dvorak concerto with the Colorado Music Festival on Sunday, and she just couldn't get on the same page with the orchestra in terms of staying together. The orchestra played a Mendelssohn's 4th Symphony that could turn on a dime in the same concert, so I would tend to assume it was her that wasn't fitting in, but hard to tell...
Entertaining yet succinct reviews Christian...have you considered writing a book about your life in music?
On a different tack, I think Mendelssohn is undervalued nowadays. There's so much that the ungrateful and ungracious Wagner seems to have absorbed from him. I recently saw 'Meistersinger' and found myself once or twice thinking "Hmm, Mendelssohn would have done that better."
Thanks Richard, I'm not sure how wide an appeal such a project would have, but I think I might title it, "Sitting and Stewing: One Man's Quest to be Opinionated"
I definitely agree on Mendelssohn. The older I get, the more there seems to be under the surface. Wagner hasn't undergone such a reappraisal for me.
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July 10, 2024 at 06:57 AM · Wondering which concerto Gil Shaham was playing. Could you add this detail please, Laurie?