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Luisi and de la Salle’s debuts with the BSO speak to the orchestra??s enduring ability to attract exciting talent, as well as its willingness to forsake substance-laden masterpieces for works whose value lies in pure virtuosity and amusement. Mahler symphonies and Tchaikovsky concertos are unquestionably more epic in scale and impact than any of the pieces programmed on Saturday, but a little bit of fun—especially in the tradition-heavy Symphony Hall—never hurt anyone...
...crowded house welcomed Cortese as he opened the concert with Hector Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival,” the same overture that James Levine selected to jumpstart the Boston Symphony Orchestra??s (BSO) current season. The formidable musical benchmark the BSO set just last month, however, hardly deterred the best of Harvard’s instrumentalists from delivering a comparable rendition...
Arriving on the coattails of one of Harvard’s longest serving music directors is a formidable challenge, to say the least, but Cortese already seems to have established a musical rapport with the orchestra??a relationship that became evident during Saturday night’s performance. Given the ensemble’s remarkable responsiveness to Cortese’s blend of unbending precision and interpretive plasticity, one can only imagine the degree of artistic cohesion HRO may realize after a few more years under Cortese’s guidance...
...credit him with motivating them to continue playing music in college. Buzney also mentioned that Cortese, who fulfills conducting engagements worldwide and has extensive experience planning tours for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, is especially eager to increase the number of HRO performing tours and to bolster the orchestra??s national and international presence. “We were looking for a person who could connect with undergraduates and challenge them on a personal basis... Cortese is the perfect match for an orchestra that is craving to be taken to higher levels,” said former...
...Hobson Pilot’s introductory solo were masterfully evocative of Nordic folklore, but a messy ensemble entrance quickly overran her lyrical interpretation. The minimalist dynamic range and bare orchestration of the piece, which should have constructed a spare yet meditative musical texture, only served to render the orchestra??s shortcomings all the more apparent. Rocky tempo changes and halfhearted instrumental solos transformed what might have been an entrancing musical reflection into a painful exercise in the mechanical art of staying together.The Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor fared no better under Sung’s direction...