Attended a great concert last night.
I have a Blu Ray featuring Ms Wang playing the Prokofiev 3rd with Abbado, but she was positively on fire last night. The conductor and the Orchestra looked harried to keep up but it was the most thrilling performance I've been to in years. There was loud and well earned applause after each movement.
This is the second time I've heard the CSO in Nielsen's 5th, as Parvo Jaarvi presented it here a few years ago. This is a most welcome development as I have long felt Nielsen's music to be woefully underrepresented in the States (the CSO performed the 3rd last year). Oramo wan't as exciting as Jaarvi in the first movement --i thought that the snare drummer, who is supposed to improvise to impede the progress of the Orchestra, was very timid--but the rest of the work fared better, with a rousing conclusion.
I have a Blu Ray featuring Ms Wang playing the Prokofiev 3rd with Abbado, but she was positively on fire last night. The conductor and the Orchestra looked harried to keep up but it was the most thrilling performance I've been to in years. There was loud and well earned applause after each movement.
This is the second time I've heard the CSO in Nielsen's 5th, as Parvo Jaarvi presented it here a few years ago. This is a most welcome development as I have long felt Nielsen's music to be woefully underrepresented in the States (the CSO performed the 3rd last year). Oramo wan't as exciting as Jaarvi in the first movement --i thought that the snare drummer, who is supposed to improvise to impede the progress of the Orchestra, was very timid--but the rest of the work fared better, with a rousing conclusion.
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