{"id":9096,"date":"2021-08-09T20:52:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=9096"},"modified":"2021-08-11T20:55:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T20:55:31","slug":"review-mastery-on-display-at-tanglewood-as-conductors-karina-canellakis-herbert-blomstedt-take-the-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-mastery-on-display-at-tanglewood-as-conductors-karina-canellakis-herbert-blomstedt-take-the-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Mastery on display at Tanglewood as conductors Karina Canellakis, Herbert Blomstedt take the podium"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Berkshire Eagle<\/a><\/p>\n

By Clarence Fanto<\/p>\n

There was plenty of electricity in the air this past weekend at Tanglewood, fortunately, not the result of storms, but instead sparked by two celebrated instrumentalists \u2014 Joshua Bell and Yo-Yo Ma<\/a> \u2014 as well as the Boston Symphony Orchestra debut of a rapidly rising conductor and a memorable appearance by the world\u2019s oldest active living maestro.<\/p>\n

Artistry at Ma\u2019s level should never be taken for granted. His performance of Tchaikovsky\u2019s ingratiating Variations on a Rococo Theme on Sunday, Aug. 8, with Karina Canellakis on the podium in her BSO debut, reflected the work\u2019s charm, grace and liveliness through its stylistic bow to Mozart (the Russian composer\u2019s idol). It\u2019s a challenge for any cellist, but Ma appeared to relish its upper-register demands with his characteristic flair and ease.<\/p>\n

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Highly expressive and animated on the podium, [Canellakis] led the BSO in American composer Missy Mazzoli\u2019s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and first performed there in 2014. Mazzoli has written that the 10-minute piece \u201cchurns and roils, inching close to the listener only to leap away at breakneck speed,\u201d transforming the orchestra \u201cinto a makeshift hurdy-gurdy, flung recklessly into space.\u201d That it did, with a soundscape that included brass players performing improvisations on the harmonica. It\u2019s a dizzying, unsettling piece, well worth hearing again.<\/p>\n

Leading Tchaikovsky\u2019s Fourth Symphony, Canellakis maximized brilliance and visceral excitement without neglecting the lyrical melancholy of the second movement and the pizzicato-driven playfulness of the scherzo. The finale, based on the Russian folk tune \u201cIn the Field Stood a Birch Tree,\u201d ended in a nearly off-the-rails blaze of brass and percussion that demonstrated the conductor\u2019s considerable mastery and control combined with the BSO\u2019s push-to-the-limits virtuosity. A well-deserved ovation followed.<\/p>\n

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From the Berkshire Eagle By Clarence Fanto There was plenty of electricity in the air this past weekend at Tanglewood, fortunately, not the result of storms, but instead sparked by two celebrated instrumentalists \u2014 Joshua Bell and Yo-Yo Ma \u2014 as well as the Boston Symphony Orchestra debut of a rapidly rising conductor and a … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3633,3613,3803,4188,3612,7062,4437],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096"}],"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=9096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9097,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions\/9097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}