The Week in Reviews, Op. 462: Tobias Feldmann; Vadim Gluzman + Johannes Moser; National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela

August 13, 2024, 4:10 PM · In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world.

Violinist Tobias Feldmann. Photo by Andrej Grilc.

Tobias Feldmann performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic at BBC Prom 26.

The Arts Desk: "Feldmann played like the first among equals, happy to fly above the orchestra, but his sound always grounded in what was going on around him....Feldmann was muscular when he needed to be, but was most engaging in the lyrical Larghetto and in the perky theme of the finale."
Back Track: "...a highly engaging performance from Feldmann, producing a bright, lively tone and lyrical line throughout. He opted for Wolfgang Schneiderhan’s cadenza inspired by Beethoven's piano concerto arrangement, which include interjections from the timpanist, drawing on the opening's five drum taps."

Vadim Gluzman and cellist Johannes Moser performed Brahms’ "Double" Concerto with the Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra.

Chicago Classical Review: "...cellist Moser was searing in opening recitative, matched in force by Gluzman’s swirling figuration before the first proper tutti took flight under Kalmar. The two soloists were a fiery simpatico pair, fluently negotiating the complex interplay of their lines throughout the Allegro’s impassioned episodes."

TheNational Children’s Symphony of Venezuela performed with conductor Gustavo Dudamel at World Orchestra Week at Carnegie Hall.

The Classical Review: "If the corruption and dictatorship repressing Venezuela this very week is the worst of the country, this youth symphony—the product of the country’s famous EL Sistema music education—is the best....More than volume, there was the tremendous excitement coming out of each musician. The crisp playing and articulation from such a massive ensemble was impressive, and this was blistering playing and jaw-dropping fun." ("Mambo!" See a little excerpt here if you are on FB...)

Anne-Sophie Mutter performed the Brahms Violin Concerto with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

Financial Times: "...pace remained difficult to come by throughout, but Mutter pushed the music along when she could. She remains peerless in technique and quality of sound for this concerto, the highest passages on the violin romantically sweet and perfectly controlled."

Kerson Leong performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Toronto Summer Music Orchestra.

Ludwig van Toronto: "Closing one’s eyes, the most prominent indicator of Leong’s mastery is the particularly high register that separates him from the rest of the strings. Of course, watching Leong with your eyes open is a different type of awe. Both his music and his movements seem vulnerable, almost romantic."

Benjamin Beilman performed the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Lincoln Center Festival Orchestra (formerly the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra).

New York Times: "Benjamin Beilman played Brahms’s Violin Concerto with a sweetly focused timbre, captivatingly fine phrasing and somewhat blurred rhythms."

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