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Founded in 1951, the Moscow Philharmonic is Russia's youngest major orchestra. Under the tutelage of Kondrashin, now 51, the Philharmonic specializes in the early classics, contemporary Soviet composers and what the Russians call modern music: Hindemith, Poulenc, Mahler. As for Schoenberg and his successors, Kondrashin says flatly: "Nyet! This is not music. This is noise." He drills his young (average age: 35) musicians four to six hours a day. He admires U.S. orchestras for their happy blend of "German discipline and a French kind of freedom." But as a loyal Communist, he has decried their artistic and financial...
...second half of the program the HRO, Yannatos, and Miss Owen proved that they could do more than entertain. They played Mahler's Fourth Symphony--a technically demanding, emotionally difficult work. The first movement was characterized by the precisely drawn contrast between the rich, sweeping romanticism of the strings and the sharp clarity of the brass and woodwinds. The orchestra demonstrated perfect control in responding to Yannatos' variation of tempo and dynamics...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will conclude its season at 8:30 p.m. tonight with a concert in Sanders Theatre. The program will include works by Mahler, Mozart, and Verdi, and the world premiere of conductor James D. Yannatos's Prieres dans l'arche, Chloe Owen, soprano, will be the soloist in the Mahler and Yannatos works...
BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY No. 8 (Deutsche Grammophon; 2 LPs). Like Mahler...
Ninth, Bruckner's Eighth lasts nearly 80 minutes; but it is a ripe and rather naive product of the 19th century, whereas the Mahler is an intense breakout into the 20th. The Berlin Philharmonic, its brasses shining, is led by Eugen Jochum, a Bruckner devotee who conducts with warm involvement...