David Robertson, conductor
Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain
Thomas Adès: Violin Concerto, Concentric Paths (Leila Josefowicz, violin)
Stravinsky: The Firebird, Original 1910 Complete Ballet
The first piece is wonderful. Adès is way too modern. His 2nd movement sounds more like noise. His last movement is more harmonic, but the violin and the symphony seem to have different agendas. Kudo to their effort of performing new works. Stravinsky is always a bit too modern to me. Hard to imagine how to dance to this as a ballet. The last 10 minutes sounds like movie soundtrack over a sunrise scene, quite pretty.
