Yet I couldn’t help wanting more on Thursday evening, when the pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane led the New York Philharmonic in Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Haydn at David Geffen Hall. While the program was finely executed, it felt safe and predictable, a nostalgia trip to 18th-century Vienna, with a latter-day homage to that era by Tchaikovsky tossed in. 98, the Philharmonic had not played this remarkable masterpiece in over 17 years, when Colin Davis conducted it. During his early years at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen did a series of concerts pairing Haydn symphonies with works by another Hungarian giant, Ligeti. (Mr. Salonen brought this idea to New York in his Hungarian Echoes festival in 2011.)

Source: New York Times January 05, 2018 16:19 UTC