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Music director Alan Gilbert’s final concert went from the ridiculous to the sublime
The NY Phil’s music director winds down his tenure with a Wagnerian challenge
The orchestra’s London residency was launched with a programme of Bartók and Mahler
Alan Gilbert is a masterly conductor — but the programme and venue were not on his side
Beguiling Schubert, jaunty Weill and strenuous H.K. Gruber — all beautifully played
William Bolcom’s Trombone Concerto was the centrepiece of a modernist programme
The future music director led brisk performances including new work by Julia Adolphe
Tricky pieces by two US composers prompted virtuoso performances on trombone and percussion
A programme celebrating the composer György Ligeti was ambitious but disjointed
Conductor Alan Gilbert strained to achieve coherence from three disparate composers
The central attraction at the opening of the 125th season took the friendly form of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1
New York Philharmonic christens David Geffen Hall with a spangling gala and some breakneck Beethoven
In Eötvös’s discourse in dissonance, the lead voices were often submerged by the textural din
The first concert in the orchestra’s five-day residency was dominated by waltzes
The orchestra met the challenge of a line-up featuring orderly dissonance, lush delicacy and fine fine frenzy
A dreary production with an uneven cast and pitch problems failed to impress in New York
The concert’s main attraction, Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto, was compellingly played
Unsuk Chin’s quirky clarinet gave way to titanic Mahler in the season’s first subscription concert
A programme of Italian film music was pleasing but largely insubstantial
Three concise orchestral adventures, all recently composed and brilliantly performed
The iconoclastic ensemble performed Julia Wolfe’s ‘Anthracite Fields’ at the NY Phil Biennial
Alan Gilbert presided over second performances of two recent works
Though imaginative and unconventional, this event – an amalgam of art-forms – lacked focus
The Finnish composer has softened his aesthetic to accord with market-friendly American taste
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