by juanalvaro | Dec 22, 2010 | Reviews
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...
by juanalvaro | Oct 27, 2010 | news
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,...
by juanalvaro | Oct 27, 2010 | Reviews
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....
by juanalvaro | Oct 12, 2010 | Reviews
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,...
by juanalvaro | Aug 26, 2010 | Reviews
Der Bozner Aufführung von Donnerstagabend kam also ein Premierencharakter zu! Unter der Leitung von Arthur Fagen nahm sich das Haydnorchester der heiklen Aufgabe an, das einsätzige Werk in seiner kontrastreichen Struktur so gut als möglich instrumental umzusetzen, hie...