The Philadelphia Orchestra at Davies Hall — A Great Legend Intact — Two Concerts by Steven Kruger

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Charles Dutoit.

Davies Hall, San Francisco

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Charles Dutoit – conductor

Saturday, June 9, 2012
Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria Von Weber
Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major
Louis Lortie – piano
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Opus 47

Sunday, June 10, 2012
Ranjbaran – Saratoga
Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances, Opus 45
Debussy – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Scriabin – The Poem of Ecstasy, Opus 54

The Philadelphia Orchestra always WAS the sexiest!

Back in the publicity heyday of art music and the aftermath of Toscanini, Americans knew their five orchestras. It went like this: in Boston you listened to Charles Munch for Gallic excitability. In Chicago, Reiner ruled with a heart of stone but turned out warmer central European renditions than Toscanini had. You flocked to Bernstein for eruptive passion and disreputable energy in New York. And at Severance Hall, in a state of penance, you submitted to the owlish purges of George Szell. But nothing seduced the listener so much as The Philadelphia Orchestra, under the direction of Eugene Ormandy.

Read the full review on the Berkshire Review, an International Journal for the Arts!