Word: haimovitz
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...Johannes Brahms’s “Symphony No. 2 in D”—along with the world premiere of a cello concerto composed by the HRO’s longtime music director James Yannatos. The soloist for the concerto was renowned cellist Matt W. Haimovitz...
...work was composed specifically for Haimovitz, who is recognized as one of the foremost champions of contemporary music in the world. Haimovitz also has a reputation of undertaking unconventional and adventurous concerts, such as playing works by Bach in coffee houses and clubs and performing arrangements of Led Zeppelin songs on the cello...
...musical language of the work was primarily tonal, though not without some meaty dissonances. Haimovitz played the work with a cool confidence, demonstrating his experience performing contemporary music. His expressiveness throughout the performance was particularly captivating...
Despite the strengths of the performers, the difficulty of the brand-new piece and the orchestra’s unfamiliarity with it led Haimovitz to go out of sync with the ensemble, causing Yannatos to stop and restart the piece twice during the third movement...
...proceeded boldly to the end. While Yannatos described his composition in completely abstract terms in his notes, it was clear that his concerto embodied the hero-versus-world aesthetic of nineteenth century Romantic pieces. Yannatos did not provide a program or narrative, but it was difficult not to hear Haimovitz as the protagonist in a story...