Chailly, Lortie, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra play Beethoven at Symphony Hall, by Michael Miller
Symphony Hall, February 25, 2010
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Louis Lortie, piano
All-Beethoven Program
Emperor Concerto
Seventh Symphony
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
James Levine, conductor
All-Beethoven Program
Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Symphony No. 7
A couple of years ago the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and conductor Riccardo Chailly visited Boston and gave a wonderful Symphony Hall concert of Richard Strauss tone poems. The orchestra, with a lot of young members, played splendidly, with great group spirit. And Chailly gave extraordinary purpose and meaning to the music. He and the orchestra under his leadership showed care and commitment with every bar, every note, and fashioned each piece into a compelling organic whole. Wow! one felt. Friends of mine in New York heard the same program a week later there and had much the same reaction.
