Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with David Zinman
by Emre Tetik Richard Termine for The New York Times The Mostly Mozart Festival, now in its final few days, has offered NYC a variety […]
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Classic Romanticism at the Mostly Mozart Festival
So far at this year's Mostly Mozart Festival, now in its final week, there's been a fair amount of Mozart, a bit of Haydn, and a whole lot of Beethoven.
Mostly Mozart: Festival Orchestra Performs Music of Mozart and Tchaikovsky
by Robert Leeper Photo credit: Richard Termine, The Wall Street Journal A lot has been made of the "newness" of the Mostly Mozart Festival, most recently by yours truly. From
Mostly Mozart: Festival Orchestra Presents All-Brahms Program
In its new incarnation as purveyor of new works and innovative programming, the Mostly Mozart Festival has also given wide exposure to a plethora of young conductors. Over the past couple of years this has included international stars Lionel Bringuier and Pablo Heras-Casado. Last night at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra had another young conductor at the helm, David Afkham, for a program of music by Johannes Brahms.
Brahms’s Concerto for violin and cello in A minor was given a soulful, stirring, and searching reading. While both violinist Vadim Repin and cellist Péter Szabó brought a fittingly romantic take to Brahms’s final orchestral work, they also felt a touch reserved. The first movement opens with an arresting dialogue between the two soloists and the duo truly move as one super soloist, so close is their synchronicity and tone. However, there was a tendency for this to render some median of emotion. In addition to being first time collaborators they had the sheet music in front of them, which, while not inherently a problem, can diffuse some of the spontaneity of a performance.
Mostly Mozart: ICE Performs David Lang’s “the whisper opera”
I couldn't imagine a sharper contrast to Monday's turbulent, often violent performance of George Benjamin's Written on Skin than Tuesday's performance of David Lang's the whisper opera at the Mostly Mozart Festival. The
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with Paul Lewis
Continuing its survey of the music of Beethoven and Mozart, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performed a program last night that was both familiar and challenging, in all of the right
Mostly Mozart Festival Opens with Beethoven, Debussy, and Mozart
"This once-hopeless festival has become an unlikely model of change…It did not invent any of the principles that pulled them out of stagnation. They simply embraced them." — Anthony Tommasini, The
Mostly Mozart Festival 2012 Finale
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with the Concert Chorale of New York, Avery Fisher Hall, 8/24/12 Martin Fröst, Shai Wosner and Lisette Oropesa, Kaplan Penthouse, 8/24/12 More pics on the photo
Garrick Ohlsson with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Wednesday night's concert by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall was a microcosm of what the Mostly Mozart Festival has become under directors Jane Moss and Louis