Word: rach-maninoff
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...continually plagued by the question, "What is going on?" while the sole consolation was the star quality of the actors. The performing members of HRO were the Tom Cruise of the evening, and quickly removed the sour taste left by the Dallapiccola with the sweetness of a Rach-maninoff rhapsody...
...immediate change in the spirits of both performers and listeners was evident after only a few measures of Rach-maninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. The trend in the evening's pieces was indeed one of variation, and the appearance of Paganini's familiar theme was a welcome divergence from the atonality of the first two pieces. In 24 variations for orchestra and piano, the musicians crisply passed the theme from one section to another with the vitality and enthusiasm that made the first HRO concert so appealing. The orchestra attacked each new alteration with unfailing skill, making...
...marred by an especially rude and uncooperative audience. Unaccompanied solos are punctuated with cries of "Boogie!" and "Get down;" the performers were repeatedly forced to wait for the audience to relax so they could continue playing. The album does capture some of the uniqueness of RTF live--the Rach-maninoff fanfares and showtunes that Corea improvises as incidental music--but there is enough garbage noise to make the entire project vaguely irritating...
...program is as follows: Gustave Strube, Overture, "Puck"; Mendelssohn, Concerto for Violin, in E minor; Rach-maninoff, Symphonic Poem, "Toteninsel"; R. Strauss, Symphonia Domestica...
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