Ottorino Respighi, Songs, Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz (June 3, 2022) Vivaldi, Great Venetian Mass, Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew (June 24, 2022) Mouton, Missa Faulte d'argent, Brabant Ensemble, S. György Kurtág, Kafka-Fragmente, Anna Prohaska, Isabelle Faust (August 19, 2022) See also Tim Smith, The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with Mozart, Mahler and Marin ( Baltimore Sun, November 9)

Baltimore Symphony OrchestraĪlso Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusik and three concert arias

Indeed, Phillips sang the solo with gorgeous, well-supported clarity, a shining, simple but not colorless sound, limpid and calm on the mysterious chords of 'Sankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu,' which return as a refrain. The poem it sets, 'Das himmlische Leben' from the 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' collection, is a childlike description of a heaven where, on fast days, the fish swim up to offer themselves as food for the blessed. Susanna Phillips's pellucid soprano voice, heard in an excellent recital earlier in the week, seemed optimally suited to Mahler's last movement. Instead the concert matched Mahler's most radiant, least neurotic symphony, the fourth, with some cozy Mozart. Continuing an unofficial traversal of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, music director Marin Alsop gave up on last season's unsuccessful pairing of Mahler's music with that of Leonard Bernstein. If anything, the program offered by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Friday night at Meyerhoff Hall was too pretty, too easy on the ears. Susanna Phillips, soprano (photo by Ken Howard) Downey, BSO goes pretty with cozy standards Read my review today on the Washington Post Web site:Ĭharles T.

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