Austin Symphony’s New World “Beyond the Score”
By Paul E. Robinson It is always a difficult business to “educate” the classical music audience without talking down to them on the one hand…
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Jaap van Zweden Masterly in Shostakovich Eighth
by Paul E. RobinsonClassical TravelsMeyerson Symphony CentreDallas, TexasOctober 22, 2010Mendelssohn: Violin ConcertoShostakovich: Symphony No. 8Nicola Benedetti, violinDallas Symphony Orchestra/Jaap van ZwedenJaap van Zweden took most…
Eschenbach Era Begins in Washington
by Paul E. RobinsonCLASSICAL TRAVELSConcert Hall, the Kennedy CenterWashington, D.C.October 16, 2010Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C major K. 338Mahler: Symphony No. 5National Symphony Orchestra/Christoph…
Sararste Returns to Toronto Symphony with Stunning Shostakovich
By Paul E. RobinsonClassical TravelsRoy Thomson Hall, TorontoOctober, 2010Stravinsky: FireworksSibelius: Violin ConcertoShostakovich: Symphony No. 4Henning Kraggerud, violinToronto Symphony Orchestra/Jukka-Pekka SarasteThe Toronto Symphony (TSO) has the…
Wilde and Weill at Shaw: An Ideal Husband and a Touch of Venus
by Paul E. RobinsonSUMMER FESTIVALS SHAW FESTIVAL, Niagara-on-the-Lake, 2010Kurt Weill has always been an enigma for classical music lovers – his career started so propitiously:…
Nagano, Mutter & OSM: An Evening of Uncompromising Soul-Searching
by Paul E. Robinson Whatever else he may be as a man and a musician, Kent Nagano is insatiably curious. So far, his Montreal audiences…
Nagano/OSM Week at Orford Festival 2010
by Paul E. RobinsonThe Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) is an orchestra without a home – at least in the summertime. For some years now,…
Verbier Festival Concert, Paul McCreesh, conductor, Sophie Koch, mezzo-soprano, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. July 26, 2010. Salle des Combins.
By Frank CadenheadThe first concert of my week at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland was, I expect, not the highlight. While the festival program correctly listed…
Aspen, Colorado: A Glorious Place to Make Music!
by Paul E. RobinsonSUMMER MUSIC FESTIVALS 2010Aspen Music Festival and School After a few days in Vail enjoying the music-making of Jaap van Zweden and…
Dallas Symphony Opens Extraordinary Summer of Music in Colorado!
by Paul E. RobinsonSUMMER FESTIVALS 2010Bravo! Vail Valley Music FestivalImagine a music festival that features three of the world’s top orchestras in successive week-long residencies.…
