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To open the lively ensemble performed Albert Schnelzer’s multi-faceted and richly contrasting “A Freak in Burbank” as if it was somewhat touchy film music and indeed the composer’s main inspiration was the director Tim Burton.
All of the ensemble’s strength unfolded after the interval in Brahms’ First Symphony. The performance was enormously powerful, yet balanced and never brash. Thomas Dausgaard is an extremely charismatic conductor, from whom radiates an aura of energy, and the musicians instinctively know what colours he wants from them.
The evening was made even better with the performance of the soloist Kit Armstrong in Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. The US-Wonderchild, who wrote his first symphony when he was just seven years old and who is also highly gifted in maths and languages, celebrated his 19th birthday on the same evening. The audience was rewarded: with a light-fingered, thought-through performance, coherently phrased and beautifully balanced with the orchestra. Standing ovations and refined Debussy as an encore followed.
***** Neue Presse, 7 March 2011







