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Lawson Taitte: Lawson Taitte is the theater critic for The Dallas Morning News. June 2009
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Dallas Symphony music director Jaap van Zweden got rave reviews for his Chicago Symphony debut last week. "One of the most impressive podium debuts Orchestra Hall has witnessed in many a season," wrote Chicago Tribute critic John von Rhein of van Zweden's performance of Anton Bruckner's Fifth Symphony. "There is something of Georg Solti's intensity and electric drive about van Zweden," von Rhein continued, "minus the ferocity. He has a string player's feeling for shaping the arc of a singing line. Nothing he did seemed on autopilot. He found as much drama in the near-silences as in the majestic climaxes. His full engagement with the music and the musicians, body and soul, was never in doubt... "After this extraordinary performance, the audience was up on its feet, treating the newcomer to a prolonged ovation. Dallas chose well. When can we have him back? In the Sun-Times, critic Andrew Patner wrote, "Clearly this is a man who has focused himself since his teenage years at Juilliard on understanding orchestral music and leadership from both sides of the podium. [Before taking up conducting, van Zweden was for 16 years concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.] He stands at the beginning of a major career with far more going for him than many names with heavier publicity and record label buzz... "His skills and rapport with the Bruckner-steeped CSO were such that the 80-minute symphony was clearly etched, balanced and gripping from beginning to end. "On the strength of this remarkable debut, I would go to hear van Zweden conduct anything, anywhere." E-mail entry: |
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