Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
The VPO’s performance doesn’t want for energy or purpose because of the lack of a crowd. Rather, there seems to be an internal imperative to the ensemble’s music-making that isn’t always apparent at these events.
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin does dazzlingly right by the symphonies of Mendelssohn.
Nobody, these days, plays the music of the Strauss family better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
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