L.A. Phil’s Spanish Program Becomes a Dance of Sound
Los Angeles Times
February 7, 2000
By: Chris Pasles
It was a luxury evening Friday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, one that people will recount to their friends and grandchildren and anyone else who had the misfortune not to attend. The mighty Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by associate conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, played a program of Spanish music, and played it marvelously. Peruvian guitarist Jorge Caballero was a dazzling, magical soloist in Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez”. His playing in the slow movements was the stuff of gossamer lightness, evoking vanished historical glories in phrasing almost more breathed than heard. (So too was the musicality of English horn player Carolyn Hove.) In the outer movements, Caballero, who is in his early 20s, was amazing in his virtuosic ease. Back To Reviews |
