Music Director Emeritus Neeme Jarvi returns to lead a newly-adapted suite from Wagner’s exhilarating “Die Meistersinger” and the acclaimed Helene Grimaud joins him for Brahms’ majestic Piano Concerto No. 1. After a recent performance by Ms. Grimaud, the Mercury News raved, “a display of finger elasticity and strength that would have made the composer’s jaw drop.”
Album review: The Arts Fuse
Grimaud, a pianist whose grasp of the Romantic sensibility (especially the willingness to risk and commit all in pursuit of an artistic goal) is total, has a field day with it here. From the downbeat of the stormy, rhythmically a-blur “Äusserst bewegt,” this is a Kreisleriana that holds nothing back.
