Electrifying ‘Symphonie fantastique,’ lively Strauss, von Einem from Fabio Luisi, Dallas Symphony | DMNSCantrell
Fabio Luisi conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Capriccio by Gottfried von Einem, on Friday evening, April 08, 2022 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas.Once in a great while, I’ll write, “Drop everything, get tickets and go to a repeat performance.”Symphonie fantastique
The first half of the program supplied lively accounts of rarely performed works by Strauss and Gottfried von Einem. As music director Fabio Luisi increasingly sets his stamp on the orchestra, it’s becoming more polished and more expressively flexible. Berlioz supplies plenty to work with: savage blazes of brass, shrieking winds, booming timpani and bass drums, and bells tolling the dead — but also, in an imaginary ball movement, four harps. English horn and offstage oboe plaintively call back and forth, until rolling thunder silences the oboe. You hear the crash of the guillotine blade and the severed head plop in the basket. Hell’s denizens dance in a frenzy to the funereal “Dies irae” chant.
As with most conductors these days, Luisi took the “March to the Scaffold” faster than the score’s tempo marking. Berlioz clearly wanted some solemnity to the march, but Luisi’s driven pace certainly added excitement.
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