by juanalvaro | Apr 17, 2011 | Reviews
The orchestra, conducted by Arthur Fagen, played with sonorous beauty, delicate and powerful by turns …. So impressed was I by the opera and its production that I returned for a second performance. This is an opera that should be taken up by the operatic...
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 | 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 | 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....
