Classical Music
Hindemith and Britten could hardly have asked for more committed advocates than Steinbacher, Jurowski, and the RSOB.
If there’s an essential “Leonard Bernstein at 100” album, this one, so far, is it: excellent performances of relatively unknown music deserving to be heard.
Saturday’s performance ranked among Odyssey Opera’s finest and most artistically satisfying undertakings.
An early highlight of the upcoming Leonard Bernstein centennial is Sony Classical’s 25-disc box set.
Michael Tilson Thomas proves he’s got Alban Berg’s style in his blood; Pablo Heras-Casado’s Mendelssohn symphony cycle continues to be stylish.
Sit Fast’s performances are breathtaking for their clarity and emotional involvement; Vladimir Jurowski serves up a ho-hum, un-monumental an interpretation of a late-Romantic pillar.
It is my sad duty to report that an evening which looked so promising was hardly a worthy homage to an important musical figure of the 20th century.
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin does dazzlingly right by the symphonies of Mendelssohn.
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