Johannes Brahms' German Requiem was performed Thursday night by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, led by music director Fabio Luisi. Soloists were...
Music director Fabio Luisi conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Symphony Chorus, with soloists Golda Schultz and Matthias Goerne, in the Brahms 'German Requiem' at the Meyerson Symphony Center on April 4, 2024.Given music’s ability to comfort in difficult times, many composers have penned musical memorials.
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra had two “firsts” Thursday night: music director Fabio Luisi’s first DSO-only performance of a Mahler symphony — the Fifth — and, with pianist Jeremy Denk, the world premiere of a substantial piano concerto by English composer Anna Clyne.In part because choral sound projects so powerfully from the Meyerson Symphony Center’s choral terrace, I sometimes think the DSO uses too many singers to balance the orchestra.
The chorus sang as expressively as Luisi conducted, from glowing pianissimos to heroic proclamations. But in German, that consonant-driven language of forward vowels, too much of the diction was mushy. In a work like this, if consonants and vowels feel wildly exaggerated to singers, they’ll be about right out in the room.
Luisi carefully balanced the orchestra, trumpets and trombones ever so subtly touching in parts that are mainly texture fillers. The optional organ part is another texture filler, and although Bradley Hunter Welch could be seen pressing keys and pedals, in only three places was there the slightest evidence of organ pedal sounds. Soprano Golda Schultz sang expressively, although I would have welcomed upper notes more floated than projected.
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