Conductor Fabio Luisi in action
The Dresden Staatskapelle, conducted by Fabio Luisi with piano soloist Rudolf Buchbinder will perform for the Celebrity Series in Boston tomorrow night (November 19). The Symphony Hall concert will feature Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Brahms' Symphony No. 4. Good seats are still available and student rush tickets will be sold prior to the performance.
The Staatskapelle received two reviews in Chicago's daily papers. First, today's Chicago Sun-Times weighed in. Here is a taste:
"I did hesitate a bit in the middle movements of the 1885 Brahms Fourth
Symphony in E minor. Op. 98, wondering if Luisi was getting too cerebral, but
when he took apart and put back together the great closing movement passacaglia
before our eyes and ears, he had won me and the audience over to his ideas.
And this is Luisi's most important gift: In addition to his technical
abilities, his tremendous focus and his palpable energy (his players are on the
edges of their seats much of the time), he has ideas about the music he
plays -- not eccentric, but deep ones. And whether he is presenting a narrative
(as with Strauss) or showing us how Brahms solved a musical problem, he conveys
a wonderful mixture of thought and art."
Read all of Staatskapelle in a class by itself with Strauss' 'Don Juan' tone poem.
The Chicago Tribune review: At 460, Dresden orchestra looks to its rich past.
I do love that headline, "At 460..." That's a lot of candles to put on a cake.
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