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April 2009
Final Round
Götterdӓmmerung, Met Opera, 4/25/09
In C @ 45
"Climaxes of great sonority and high complexity appear and are dissolved into the endlessness. At times you feel you have never done anything all your life long but listen to this music and as if that is all or ever will be."
(Alfred Frankenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, November, 1964)
The biggest, most captivating performance of In C I've ever heard. And, the most brilliant, understated use of a conductor (Dennis Russell Davies) I've ever seen. (More pics below.)
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