{"id":289261,"date":"2026-05-12T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289261\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:20:18","slug":"review-dallas-symphony-goes-for-baroque-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289261\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dallas Symphony Goes for Baroque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Friday\u2019s (5\/8) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/performing-arts\/article\/review-unusual-program-18th-century-music-dallas-22249013.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>, Scott Cantrell writes about \u201can unusual Dallas Symphony Orchestra program of 18th-century music by German and Austrian composers. On paper, it was an odd assortment: a Beethoven\u00a0scena\u00a0for soprano and orchestra followed by Bach\u2019s E major Violin Concerto (BWV 1042), the Haydn Trumpet Concerto and Mozart\u2019s\u00a0Haffner Symphony (No. 35 in D major). Featuring two superb DSO musicians as soloists, it wasn\u2019t repertory we\u2019ve associated with music director Fabio Luisi, who was on the podium. The first three pieces were performed, appropriately, with relatively chamber-orchestra forces, although the Mozart got more of a big-band approach. An audibly enthusiastic audience rewarded every piece with a standing ovation. The Beethoven is a miniature operatic scene \u2026 It made no sense in the program\u2019s context until an aha! moment in the slow movement of the Bach\u2026. As elegantly, exquisitely played by DSO co-concertmaster Nathan Olson, that Bach slow movement had the feeling of a tender, elaborately inflected operatic aria. Olson dispatched the outer movements with silvery tone, technical finesse and sophisticated shaping. Both he and the reduced complement of DSO strings applied vibrato sparingly, on long notes here and there, as 18th-century\u00a0treatises advocate. Luisi gave the music spring and suavity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Friday\u2019s (5\/8) Dallas Morning News, Scott Cantrell writes about \u201can unusual Dallas Symphony Orchestra program of 18th-century&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33338,32067,102,104,103,13473,33339],"class_list":["post-289261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-composers","tag-conductors","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-musicians","tag-repertoire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}