{"id":11806,"date":"2023-05-05T12:08:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2023-05-10T12:10:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:10:53","slug":"review-when-the-philharmonic-applauds-the-soloist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-when-the-philharmonic-applauds-the-soloist\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/05\/arts\/music\/new-york-philharmonic-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without interplay from the musicians, Leonidas Kavakos found tension in his own playing in Shostakovich\u2019s First Violin Concerto.<\/p>\n<p>By Oussama Zahr<\/p>\n<p>After the musicians of the New York Philharmonic finished Shostakovich\u2019s First Violin Concerto on Thursday night, they did something they don\u2019t usually do: They applauded the soloist. With a violinist on the order of Leonidas Kavakos, that reaction felt justified. He is a wonder. The music flowed out of him like a river \u2014 big, glistening and unobstructed, but also tasteful in its frictionless subtleties.<\/p>\n<p>Shostakovich, under the watch of Soviet authorities and brought to heel at Stalin\u2019s pleasure, completed the concerto in 1948 but, presumably fearing retribution for failing to glorify the nation and its people, shelved it until after Stalin\u2019s death in 1953. The work is constructed as a suite of movements. It opens with a character piece, a murkily colored Nocturne that lives in the Upside Down of Chopin\u2019s genre-defining works for piano, and reaches a climax in a Baroque-derived Passacaglia, at once august and austere, that leads into a fiendish five-minute cadenza for the soloist.<\/p>\n<p>Playing from memory, Kavakos cleared one hazard after another in Shostakovich\u2019s stupendously original score. He didn\u2019t just spin legato lines in the searching, conversational Nocturne; he expounded entire legato paragraphs in an eloquent, unbroken stream of consciousness. Shredding his way through the Scherzo, his tone was poised, even lavish. Where some violinists convey a sense of anguish in demanding passages \u2014 playing two melodies in duet or an endless seesaw of double stops \u2014 he sounded effortless. Even his harmonics had a juicy ping.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/05\/arts\/music\/new-york-philharmonic-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times Without interplay from the musicians, Leonidas Kavakos found tension in his own playing in Shostakovich\u2019s First Violin Concerto. By Oussama Zahr After the musicians of the New York Philharmonic finished Shostakovich\u2019s First Violin Concerto on Thursday night, they did something they don\u2019t usually do: They applauded the soloist. With a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-when-the-philharmonic-applauds-the-soloist\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3929,3686,3612,4187,3669],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11807,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions\/11807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}