by juanalvaro | Mar 28, 2011 | Reviews
The Piano Concerto No. 1, written by the 35-year-old Martinů two years after he’d left his native land for Paris, is a neoclassical piece dressed in a sort of neobaroque style that he may have absorbed from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, Prokofiev’s “Classical” Symphony,...
by juanalvaro | Mar 28, 2011 | Reviews
La colorista y descriptiva obertura sinfónica de Mendelssohn La Gruta de Fingal abrió una velada que se movió entre la agitación y el remanso. Arthur Fagen impuso, desde esta primera obra, un sonido amplio y abierto a la orquesta, que respondió muy bien, con acertado...
by juanalvaro | Mar 28, 2011 | Reviews
Fagen’s way with “Finlandia,” Sibelius’ anthem of Finnish independence, was rousing. The Symphony Orchestra sounded sumptuous and also whip-crackingly united. Liszt’s most popular symphonic poem, “Les Preludes,” a musical meditation built on the poetic outpourings of...
by juanalvaro | Feb 3, 2011 | news
Mr. Fagen will be in Spain on February 10 and 11, 2011 to lead the Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra in Pamplona conducting a program that includes Mendelssohn’s Hebriden Overture, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with soprano Kirsten Blanck and Brahms’s Symphony n.1 in c moll....
by juanalvaro | Jan 12, 2011 | news
Arthur Fagen returned to France to conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice on January 7 and 8. Mr. Fagen took up the baton to conduct a program devoted to Russia: Sadko by Rimski-Korsakov, the violin concerto op. 82 by Glazunov and the Symphony n. 5 by Sergej...
