The Critic's Chair for Sunday 21 April 2013
Presented by Kenneth Young
American music-making is on display this week on The Critic's Chair, when Kenneth Young reviews discs of dazzling and challenging music for large orchestra. Though women still struggle with equality on the conductor's podium, Marin Alsop leads the way at the helm of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The New York Philharmonic releases live recordings of their concerts with inconsistent results under the baton of their music director, Alan Gilbert. Finally, American conductor Leonard Slatkin guides the Orchestre National de Lyon through a brilliant performance of the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz.
The Critic's Chair for 21 April 2013
Kenneth Young reviews The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's latest recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 conducted by Marin Alsop, a live concert with violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman, the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert in music by Beethoven, Stravinsky and Ravel, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique by l'Orchestre National de Lyon and Leonard Slatkin, and pays tribute to Colin Davis with Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 and violinst Arthur Grumiaux.