With music director Fabio Luisi conducting, concertmaster Alexander Kerr played the Bruch Violin Concerto.
With music director Fabio Luisi conducting, concertmaster Alexander Kerr performs with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerson Symphony Center on Feb. 6, 2025.wisely eschewed the overstuffed monumentality that became the default position for too many modern conductors in Beethoven symphonies. If a Beethoven symphony sounds comfortable, the performance has probably missed the point. Even for nominally slow movements Beethoven left pretty mobile beat-per-minute metronome markings.
With gentler early-19th-century instruments, Beethoven never heard orchestral sounds as massive as the DSO’s climactic passages. But Beethoven so often seems to be straining at limits, so there was an argument for Luisi’s no-holds-barred approach. More introspective music was elegantly contoured, with particularly eloquent contributions from the winds, singly and in combinations., by contemporary American composer Raven Chacon.
Fourteen minutes of amorphous sonic effects isn’t my idea of fun or a compelling artistic experience. But Luisi supplied clear leadership and applause was enthusiastic, with Chacon appearing onstage for a bow.Poor Max Bruch. A German contemporary of Brahms, he composed three operas, three symphonies, three violin concertos and much else, but he’s remembered mainly for his G minor Violin Concerto and theThe de facto Bruch concerto had a fine soloist Thursday in DSO concertmaster Alexander Kerr.
Luisi was a true partner in shaping and directing the music, and the orchestra played with warmth and élan. I wondered only if some of the climaxes were louder than necessary in alternation with a solo violin.Repeats at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora St. $58 to $319.
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