This Will Probably Be a Minority Opinion, but It Did... [Derived Headline]
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THIS will probably be a minority opinion, but it did seem to me last night that there was something hollow in the Russian National Orchestra's performance at their single appearance in the Usher Hall.
All the ingredients were there in the band's performance of Beethoven's Coriolan Overture: that big, meaty, dark sound, and a sound with real depth, real weight; a string-rich sound and a punchy attack. And all the gestures were there too, with conductor Andrey Boreyko, substituting for RNO founder Mikhail Pletnev, doing not too bad a job, though coordination between conductor and orchestra was not always spot-on.See the full content of this document
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This Will Probably Be a Minority Opinion, but It Did... [Derived Headline]
What was missing was a sense of engagement. There wa...
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