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3/4 NY Philharmonic Opening Concert 2007 / Yo-Yo Ma, Maazel, Dvorak: Cello Concerto - 1. Allegro

Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 105 1. Allegro Yo-Yo Ma, cello Lorin Maazel, conductor New York Philharmonic Orchestra Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center - New York, NY September 20, 2007 / PBS - Live from Lincoln Center Dvořák: Cello Concerto Live - 1988 NY Phil/Zubin Mehta Opening Concert    • Yo-Yo Ma - Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Min...   9/20/07 NY Times Review - "With a Cellist’s Many Colors." By Anthony Tommasini Anytime Yo-Yo Ma plays the Dvořák Cello Concerto, the occasion automatically becomes a significant musical event. So it was on Tuesday, when he performed this enduring work during the opening concert of the New York Philharmonic’s season at Avery Fisher Hall. Overall, though, the choice of a Dvorak program for this inaugural concert — with the concerto bracketed by the bustling “Carnival” and the Seventh Symphony — could be seen as predictably timid thinking on the part of the Philharmonic’s music director, Lorin Maazel. Still, there was certainly widespread interest in the program and the Philharmonic. The dress rehearsal was open free to the public. In addition, the concert, tape-delayed by 30 minutes, was broadcast on PBS’s “Live From Lincoln Center” series, and simulcast to Lincoln Center Plaza, where the Philharmonic put out a thousand chairs. All were filled. With this program, Mr. Maazel began his sixth season as music director, his next to last. Whatever one’s take on his artistic aims and tenure, he has kept the orchestra in terrific condition. The playing of all three works was exemplary. Mr. Ma, who turns 52 next month, has been performing the Dvorak concerto prominently for at least 30 years. But he is an artist incapable of routine. There is a fascinating convergence of qualities in his work at this stage of his great career. In a way, he plays with more maturity, breadth, and insight than ever. At the same time, he has seldom taken such risks for the sake of expression. His technical command remains incomparable. Yet on this night, in striving for intensity or in bending a phrase toward its climactic peak, he did not care, it seemed, if the wide vibrato on a sustained high tone nearly splattered, or if a little glitch slipped into his legato as he drove a dramatic phrase purposefully to the depths of his instrument. Some cellists may have a bigger sound, but Mr. Ma draws listeners in, an art he practices as well as any musician alive. The variety of colorings, shadings, and nuances, as always, was wondrous: from the rich, mellow, and dusky quality he brought to the wistful secondary theme in the fitful first movement, to the pale, spectral tone during passages of haunting arpeggio figurations in the slow movement. He shaped the theme of that moody Adagio with poignant nobility and brought sweep, generous lyricism, and punchy rhythmic vigor to the rhapsodic finale. The orchestra under Mr. Maazel sounded inspired. During the prolonged standing ovation, Mr. Ma, who always comes across as someone who thinks himself very lucky to be where he is, engaged in a hugfest with every Philharmonic player within reach. If the last three of Dvořák's nine symphonies are his finest works in the genre, the Symphony No. 7 in D minor is, to me, the strongest of them all: a craggy, elusive yet shrewdly structured score. Though Dvořák does not directly borrow folk themes, the symphony is imbued with the character of Czech folk music. The orchestra sounded great. Mr. Maazel led an authoritative and elegantly expressive performance. Still, after the concerto, the symphony was a bit of a letdown. We had had our Dvorak moment. Even the players seemed to convey this. Imagine if, instead of this symphony, there had been a new work. Perhaps an American score? Something to shake up the audience a little would have been helpful. Two couples seated in the row before me, dressed for the post-concert opening-night dinner at the hall, spent much time during the Dvorak symphony performance perusing the list of patrons in their programs. In any event, there are premieres and contemporary works to come as the season continues under Mr. Maazel.