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Pianist Andreas Haefliger at the Perelman
A thing for Wagner
The young German pianist Andreas Haefliger didn't seem fully engaged when he played Mozart and Liszt. Only when he got to Wagner did he seem to catch fire.
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Jeremy Gill works at Settlement (2nd review)
Book of hours, book of life
Composer Jeremy Gill placed two of his own works side by side with pieces by two of the 20th Century's greatest composers and tapped into the deeper currents of the classical tradition.
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Jeremy Gill works at Settlement (1st review)
Jeremy Gill's ancient sounds and rituals
Jeremy Gill's music is particularly concerned with sound qualities, to the extent that he'll move his performers to different parts of the hall during the course of a work. It seems to be a signature for this promising young composer.
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London Symphony plays Mahler's Seventh
Mahler's ugly duckling
Mahler's Seventh Symphony is one of the most rarely performed of his scores, in part because it lacks (or eschews) the overall dynamic structure of his more popular works. But it's a satisfying work in the right interpretive hands, and Valery Gergiev was at least intermittently successful in it with the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Strauss's "Arabella' at AVA
Memo to Richard Strauss: Less is more
Richard Strauss wrote operas for big orchestras, but this intimate production on a tiny stage, with just a piano for accompaniment, enabled some of Arabella's long overlooked qualities to emerge.
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Higdon, Hahn and Curtis (2nd review)
The poet returns to her incubator
What makes Curtis Institute one of the world's great music schools? Jennifer Higdon's Violin Concerto, written for her former Curtis student Hilary Hahn, is a touching portrait of the relationship between a powerful talent and the unique institution that nurtured her.
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Jurowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
A night of musical heroics
This stellar Philadelphia Orchestra concert, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and including a stunning rendition of the Beethoven Violin Concerto by Lisa Batiashvili, ennobled the Classical repertoire as few concerts do.
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OCP's "Roméo et Juliette' (2nd review)
She's a teenager— remember?
Is the Opera Company's fashionista version of Roméo et Juliette a travesty or a breath of fresh air? That's a matter of personal taste— and among teenagers, the response was surprisingly positive.
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Curtis Orchestra: Modern and post-modern (1st review)
Hope for the future
The Curtis Orchestra's midwinter concert under Juanjo Mena, with soloist Hilary Hahn, featured a fine new Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon, flanked by the rarely heard Hindemith Concert Music for Strings and Brass, and the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony. Hahn was superb, and the strings of the Curtis particularly distinguished themselves.
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"Nixon in China' at the Met
A cable-news opera
The Met's debut production of Nixon in China contains mesmerizing tunes and excellent musical craftsmanship. Its libretto, however, lacks human drama and emotion. It's more of a documentary than an opera.
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