Performers
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, Principal Guest Conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello
Program
ELGAR Cello Concerto in E Minor
THOMAS ADÈS The Exterminating Angel Symphony (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
DEBUSSY La mer
Note
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2022/10/22/City-of-Birmingham-Symphony-Orchestra-0800PM
Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla,when she is calm, the music flows as a river does, on its purposeful own, leaving a lingering impression of quiet awe.
There may be no player smaller than she is, but on the podium her arms seem as though they can reach out and touch any musician, no matter how far away. Her gestures are raptly expressive and sweeping, as though she is not so much creating sound but embracing it and those who make it.
Debussy’s sensuous evocations of the play of the waves and the dialogue of the wind and the sea took on an aura of climate change. By the striking final climax, louder than any Debussy I have ever heard, a conductor who is a force of nature met Mother Nature.
-LA Times 10.14.2022
Whole review
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-10-14/commentary-mirga-grazinyta
