Some video samples of KM with the KCO, with audience, the Christmas Matinee (Kerstmatinee) concerts from 2023 and 2024:
I found the 2023 concert the better of the two, IMVHO. It was notable that KM divided the violins for this concert for the old-school antiphonal effect (although how much of that would come through computer loudspeakers maybe escaped me), with the double basses in a back center row in the style of the Vienna Philharmonic. Folks here who know Felix Mendelssohn better than me maybe can answer a question about The Hebrides at the start of the concert: is that the original version, rather than the final revised version? I heard bits that I didn't recognize. The one presentation gaffe was not showing Chen Reiss' 2nd bow as she makes her way carefully down the stairs after the Felix Mendelssohn vocal selection, but instead showing the presenter (Maria Fiselier) introducing LvB 3. I'll hold off on comments about KM's reading of LvB 3 until others here have had a chance to watch it (I thought it was good, but I don't want to spoil details or bias anyone's opinion in advance).
I found the 2023 concert the better of the two, IMVHO. It was notable that KM divided the violins for this concert for the old-school antiphonal effect (although how much of that would come through computer loudspeakers maybe escaped me), with the double basses in a back center row in the style of the Vienna Philharmonic. Folks here who know Felix Mendelssohn better than me maybe can answer a question about The Hebrides at the start of the concert: is that the original version, rather than the final revised version? I heard bits that I didn't recognize. The one presentation gaffe was not showing Chen Reiss' 2nd bow as she makes her way carefully down the stairs after the Felix Mendelssohn vocal selection, but instead showing the presenter (Maria Fiselier) introducing LvB 3. I'll hold off on comments about KM's reading of LvB 3 until others here have had a chance to watch it (I thought it was good, but I don't want to spoil details or bias anyone's opinion in advance).
Comment