Robert Spano conducts his first Fort Worth Symphony concert as music director.
turned a very good orchestra into one often playing on the highest level.
The three 19th-century works from the Austro-German standard rep were composed within a mere 65 years. Spano took them in reverse chronology with the concerto, unusually, at the end. The newest of the works, Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn, invokes an even earlier composer, although the theme probablyRhythmic buoyancy was allied to bold contrasts and subtle shadings, with pianissimos as “charged” as they were delicate. The music smiled when it should, even danced at times.
The Schubert B minor Symphony , the best known of several symphonies the composer left unfinished, came next. Most of us familiar with the work probably think of it as “pleasant,” far less confrontational than Beethoven’s symphonies.
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