| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 24-Jan-2013 Walt Disney Concert Hall | LA Phil and Morlot offer mixed bag of Dutilleux, Mozart, and Beethoven |
A tense, Holocaust-inspired orchestral work by Henri Dutilleux followed by one of Mozart’s most chipper piano concertos on one half; a second half consisting of only the Beethoven Symphony no. 5. That's a strange enough combination on paper – and hearing it actually realized is stranger still. You have to wonder what they were thinking. And by “they” I mean whoever devised the oddball program that guest conductor Ludovic Morlot conducted last night with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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| 15-Jan-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Alain Lefèvre and Ludovic Morlot in concert with the OSM |
Last night’s concert featured the Québec native pianist and frequent OSM guest Alain Lefèvre and the guest conductor Ludovic Morlot, Music Director of the Seattle Symphony. The program was dedicated to cellist, educator and founder of I Musici de Montréal Yuli Turovsky, who died yesterday.
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