From The Boston Globe:
\nThree conductors made for three days of thrills with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood
\nBy Zo\u00eb Madonna<\/p>\n
It\u2019s one thing to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra, another to play a concerto with it, and a whole separate feat to do both at once. Doing both with satisfying results is even more difficult. This kind of double duty poses a high risk for a potentially high reward, and Friday evening at Tanglewood\u2019s Koussevitzky Music Shed, violinist Leonidas Kavakos<\/strong> \u2014 and the audience \u2014 just about hit the jackpot….the energy soared whenever Kavakos tore loose into the wild-ride cadenzas (his own arrangements of Beethoven\u2019s cadenzas, from the composer\u2019s piano-and-orchestra transcription of this concerto). The first movement\u2019s long cadenza included a dialogue between Kavakos and timpanist Tim Genis, which sounded almost like a Renaissance dance in its open harmonies and hearty rhythm…I also wouldn\u2019t say no to hearing Dvorak\u2019s Symphony No. 7 again a la Kavakos; conducting from memory on the podium, he took it by storm. For both pieces, he placed the first and second violins on opposite sides of the podium, lending the orchestra\u2019s sound a nimble, balanced quality with a robust bass in the middle.<\/p>\n ————————————-<\/p>\n The rest of the program was Beethoven at his sunniest. Taking center stage for Beethoven\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 4, soloist Inon Barnatan<\/strong> was an absolute delight. His intonation and phrasing were crystalline, and a sense of grounded serenity prevailed no matter how quickly his fingers flew. In the second movement, Ad\u00e8s led an imposing battalion of strings, facing off with Barnatan\u2019s graceful passages. The third movement lit a fire under the pianist, and his playing took on new urgency but remained centered.<\/p>\n Full review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From The Boston Globe: Three conductors made for three days of thrills with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood By Zo\u00eb Madonna It\u2019s one thing to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra, another to play a concerto with it, and a whole separate feat to do both at once. Doing both with satisfying results is even … 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":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746"}],"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=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4749,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions\/4749"}],"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=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}