Sergej Prokofiev, Symphony n. 5, USA

The Philharmonic completed an impressive autumn on Tuesday evening with a resplendent reading of Prokofiev’s Symphony Number 5, adding that highvoltage score to a list of triumphs in symphonic works that test the mettle of even the best of ensembles. Maestro Fagen was...

OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2010

ARTHUR FAGEN conducts the world première of Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie by Giovanni D’Aquila at the Teatro Massimo, Palermo, on November 16, 17, 18, 19 This is the first of two world première operas which Mr. Fagen will be conducting this season. In April, 2011,...

Anton Bruckner, Symphony n. 4, USA

Maestro Fagen, who conducted without score, led an integrated and spacious reading. The technical quality of the performance was praiseworthy, too, from the opening moments when a French horn, dangerously exposed because of the surrounding quiet, calls forth....

Gioachino Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Indiana, USA

Conductor Arthur Fagen had drawn a clean and lyrical sound from the Concert Orchestra in the pit and, additionally, captured with it the spirited momentum, the buoyant and snappy pacing from which Rossini’s fertile and sometimes febrile score benefits.Peter Jacobi,...