A Thrilling Beginning of Dudamel's Final Season
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Gustavo Dudamel is going out with a bang. The maestro's final season as the LA Phil's Music & Artistic Director kicked off with a magnificent triple-header…
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For Three Weeks, School Orchestras and Gustavo Celebrate Gustav’s Music in Mahler Grooves Festival
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Over a period of three weeks (2/22 – 3/7), the L.A. Phil celebrated the Mahler Grooves Festival. Youth orchestras from across the greater Los Angeles region assembled at the Disney Hall…
Read MoreA Memorable OC Visit by UK Orchestra and Korean Piano Phenom
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Lim, who is 20, brought remarkable maturity to the music-making, tackling its technical demands with apparent ease while finding fresh nuances in this familiar work.
Read MoreDudamel’s Mahler Sixth packs emotional power in a sonic spectacular
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The greatly expanded orchestra featured four flutes, eight horns, two harps, an assortment of percussion, including a celeste, cowbells and a gigantic purpose-built sledgehammer…
Read MoreDecember with Zubin Mehta Is the Month to be Jolly
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Mehta’s account of Mahler First Symphony after the intermission was unlike any I have heard, with its insertion of the “Blumine” movement between the first and second.
Read MoreTwo Weeks with Zubin Mehta, a Fantastique Mahler and Berlioz
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In March, Zubin Mehta returned to L.A. to conduct Mahler Third and Symphonie fantastique. Joining him were German contralto Gerhild Romberger, Puerto Rican soprano Sophia Burgos and boy soprano Sebastian Dolinar…
Read MoreReturn of Dudamel’s Unsinkable Mahler Titanic First
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Spanish violinist María Dueñas played like a force of nature and with a winning smile, even after she broke the strings on her Strad…
Read MoreMahler’s "Das Lied" Features Soloists and CGI Effects
/the main feature of this performance, a video projection of animated objects – some lifelike, some obstract – that interacted with the two soloists as they explored the narratives and dreamlike state of their songs.
Read MoreA San Franciscan Night to Remember at Disney Hall
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MTT favored a more astringent sound and clarity of details, but still achieved the same noble and grand results...
Read MoreLA Phil Presents Double Bill of Schubert Symphonies and Mahler Songs
/It wasn’t until the “Great” Symphony No. 9 that maestro Dudamel became completely in tune with Schubert, achieving a fine sense of balance between relaxed joie de vivre and bursts of intensity.
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