Truly outstanding performance!!!
SOI has 'matured'
I used to find the concerts over priced & over hyped.
Hence, I had 'stopped' going for them.
However, the Dvorak 9th is one of my all time top 5 symphonic works & I could not let the chance pass.
Hence I took the plunge - 1800/- [bit steep - for me at least] & I was there in F 23 seated & ready.
The 1st work I had never heard - so it was a good start to the evening;
The 2nd work - well the less I say the better - I was recalled of the memory I had of not wanting to go to SOI.
Interval - coffee & snack.
Then came the 'big bang'
This SOI under the Baton of C.D. is a 'reformed' orchestra.
Excellent Control. Super Timing. Restraint. Opulence - Boy O Boy !! What happened....
If I was blind folded & made to listen no way would I have guessed that this was not the Bavarian State or Hungarian National Philaharmonic Orchestra or any other of that level.
Excellent !
Simply super.
Dvorak 9th is a super piece of music & it was played wonderfully.
I was really satisfied & the Orchestra & the Conductor deserved the 80 to 85 % Standing Ovation they received.
Bravo !