Classics 9 & 10
By Matthew Heil, PR & Marketing Manager
Another weekend's worth of concerts come and gone, and from the robust applause throughout the evening, our concert offerings for Feb. 22-25 were very well received. Violinist Baiba Skride (pronounced Buy-bah Skree-day) brought an energetic and sensitive performance to Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 in A minor, while the other works of the evening, Christopher Rouse’s Iscariot and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major were equally well-received.
For those of you who prefer reading the newspapers online (and I usually do) the review by Arizona Republic writer Richard Nilsen was profuse with his praise of both of Baibe and the orchestra, noting that she performed “as if she had lived through the purges and the siege of Leningrad and recalled them spontaneously,” and that the Beethoven performed “was probably the best performance of a Beethoven symphony they have given in the [Michael Christie’s] brief tenure.”
Read the review here.
Now it’s on to yet another stirring string-filled concert March 1-3, as the symphony tackles Brahms Serenade Nol. 2 in A major; Nielsen’s Concerto for Violin & Orchestra; an Grieg’s Suite No. 1, from Peer Gynt. Another accomplished violinist, Henning Kraggerud, will be joining the orchestra. It promises to be another riveting week!
Another weekend's worth of concerts come and gone, and from the robust applause throughout the evening, our concert offerings for Feb. 22-25 were very well received. Violinist Baiba Skride (pronounced Buy-bah Skree-day) brought an energetic and sensitive performance to Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 in A minor, while the other works of the evening, Christopher Rouse’s Iscariot and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major were equally well-received.For those of you who prefer reading the newspapers online (and I usually do) the review by Arizona Republic writer Richard Nilsen was profuse with his praise of both of Baibe and the orchestra, noting that she performed “as if she had lived through the purges and the siege of Leningrad and recalled them spontaneously,” and that the Beethoven performed “was probably the best performance of a Beethoven symphony they have given in the [Michael Christie’s] brief tenure.”
Read the review here.
Now it’s on to yet another stirring string-filled concert March 1-3, as the symphony tackles Brahms Serenade Nol. 2 in A major; Nielsen’s Concerto for Violin & Orchestra; an Grieg’s Suite No. 1, from Peer Gynt. Another accomplished violinist, Henning Kraggerud, will be joining the orchestra. It promises to be another riveting week!
4 Comments:
she gave a stunning peformance.
I think it will rank as one of the best nights at the symphony this season.
Just outstanding! Without question, the best symphony performance we have seen this season.
sonny,
I was wondering the same thing about the opening. No answers here.
The hammer definitely was there but I join you in being surprised by the lack of power at that performance. From a visual perspective it looked like he nailed the opening but there must be something about that church that dampened it.
I do not edit such things by the way.
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