Well, a very busy work schedule took me away from reviewing concerts at the DFP for most of 2007. So, as the 2008 holiday season gave me a few days off, I wrote these belated comments on the concerts (some were magnificent, others less so).
3 March 2007 (Lars Vogt, MPO, Matthais Bamert)
Bamert began the concert with Beethoven's Creatures of Prometheus Overture with a slightly over-sized MPO. The interpretation seemed to lumber along before a slightly turgid Lars Vogt DFP debut in Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto. After the interval, we had a less-than-inspiring interpretation of R Strauss's Aus Italien (with some flat tuning from the flute section). Kees Bakels's recording of the very same piece seemed better than Bamert's live interpretation.
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