On Tuesday night, at Moody Performance Hall, music director Richard McKay led the Dallas Chamber Symphony in a fresh take on the Brahms Third Symphony. If a...
Pianist Anton Nel performs with music director Richard McKay and the Dallas Chamber Symphony at Moody Performance Hall on May 1, 2024.There’s a special pleasure in hearing a refreshing take on a composition you know pretty well. Not, of course, a performance that’s distorted or belabored with point making.in a fresh take on the Brahms Third Symphony. If a chamber orchestra performance of a Brahms symphony was unusual, so were the piano-and-orchestra offerings in the concert’s first half.
This is a very part-time organization, and the mostly young musicians seem to vary from one concert to another. So the playing, although professional and caring, didn’t always have the last bit of tonal finish. The second and fourth movements ended with wind chords out of tune, and in the first movement violins didn’t always aim unanimously at quick moving upper notes., the pace at which the music would live, move and have its being. Urgency was balanced by expressive detail.
Nel gave friendly introductions to the two piano works, and McKay spoke about the Brahms. But please, presenters, there are friendly, non-condescending ways to ask audiences, Special Contributor. Former staff classical music critic Scott Cantrell continues contributing as a freelance writer on classical music and art. His classical music reporting is supported by the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
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