Tickets are now on sale for this summer’s Mostly Mozart Festival featuring the Music Director Louis Langrée, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Emerson String Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, and more.
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(Photo of Andrew Manze by Sven Lorenz, Essen, and photo of Stephen Hough by Andrew Crowley)
“In Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony the orchestra was focused and bright,” wrote The New York Times’ Zachary Woolfe about last Tuesday night’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performance with conductor Andrew Manze and pianist Stephen Hough. “In the fourth movement there is an unexpected series of crazily chromatic chords; but in this performance, given the vibrancy of what had preceded it, it seemed utterly natural. The audience was ready for anything under Mr. Manze’s exciting direction.”
The Mostly Mozart Festival continues tonight with the Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dido and Aeneas in the Rose Theater.
(Photo of Louis Langrée by © 2012 Richard Termine, and photo of Joshua Bell by Eric Kabik)
Two fabulous Mostly Mozart Festival stories appeared in both The New York Times and Wall Street Journal today:
“As always, Mr. Bell’s tone was rich, warm and finely focused, and he moved easily between the score’s punchy passages and its lyrical flights,” wrote The New York Times’ Allan Kozinn about last Saturday’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performance in Avery Fisher Hall with conductor Louis Langrée and violinist Joshua Bell.
And, after a recent interview with Langrée, The Wall Street Journal’s Pia Catton said in her piece: “Indeed, Mr. Langrée’s success at this festival has been an integral rung in a career ladder that continues to stretch higher and higher.”
Tomorrow, the festival features the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with conductor Andrew Manze and pianist Stephen Hough. Mostly Mozart concludes this Saturday.
(Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco)
Check out what The New York Times’ Vivien Schweitzer had to say in today’s paper about last Monday night’s beloved Emerson String Quartet performance in Alice Tully Hall. For one of the works, Schweitzer wrote, the Quartet “offered an ideally balanced interpretation: somber and mournful, more dignified than sentimental.”
Lincoln Center’s 2012 Mostly Mozart Festival season continues tonight with a Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performance conducted by Osmo Vänskä. The Festival runs through next Saturday.
(Photo of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra by Marco Borggreve, photo of Pablo Heras-Casado by Miguel Peñalver and photo of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet by Paul Mitchell)
It was a jam-packed weekend for Mozart lovers at Lincoln Center!
Read what The New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini had to say about the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with fortepiano solosit Kristian Bezuidenhout and conductor Pablo Heras-Casado last Thursday night, as well as the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and conductor Louis Langrée the following night (AND pianist Shai Wosner at A Little Night Music!) - all part of this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival.
Mostly Mozart runs through next Saturday.
(Photo by Richard Termine)
“This engaging concert, featuring the distinguished pianist Nelson Freire and the splendid tenor Lawrence Brownlee and conducted by the dynamic Louis Langrée, who is celebrating his 10th season as the festival’s music director, was a demonstration of how much Mostly Mozart has been revitalized in recent years,” wrote The New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini about the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performance last Tuesday night at Avery Fisher Hall, which opened this summer’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center.
Mostly Mozart runs through August 25.
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