A piece by Afro-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor prefaced Nordic music by Grieg, Sibelius.
Guest conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerson Symphony Center on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Dallas.Have I gone soft, or have we been getting some really fine orchestra concerts lately?
Trained in violin and composition at the Royal College of Music in London, Coleridge-Taylor early on drew praise from Edward Elgar and Arthur Sullivan as well as his professor Charles Villiers Stanford . His 1898 cantata, based on the popular Longfellow poem, created a sensation. Sadly, he struggled to sustain a career, and at only 37 he died of pneumonia.
Ryan Bancroft conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerson Symphony Center on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Dallas. Given Paul Lewis’ discography, focused on the Beethoven and Schubert repertory favored by his mentor, Alfred Brendel, he was a surprise booking for the Grieg concerto. But he and Bancroft gave it fresh-scrubbed immediacy, drama and loving detail.
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