Rouvali/ Philharmonia
Royal Festival Hall, 3rd November 2019
“See the music, hear the dance.” Few have encapsulated the relationship between dance and music as deftly as the great choreographer George Balanchine. Presenting ballet scores in concert raises issues. Liberated from the need to accommodate dancers, conductors have freer rein over tempi and can shape lines as they wish. Yet it’s still dance music and when Santtu-Matias Rouvali directed his own selection of music from Swan Lake in this Philharmonia matinee, although I did not necessarily expect to see the dance, I did rather hope to feel it.
Nikolai Lugansky
© Marco Borggreve
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