The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 1st, 2003
Brooding concerto MSO matches weighty piece with dark sound By TOM STRINI Journal Sentinel music critic Saturday, November 1, 2003 Elgar's Cello Concerto is as slow-moving and melodramatic as a Gothic tale shot in black-and-white in an English manor house. The Milwaukee Symphony played it at Friday's matinee, with Raymond Leppard conducting and Lynn Harrell as soloist. Harrell's sinuous line and ardent, probing phrasing matched the weighty, Victorian psychology of the piece. The dark, brooding sound Leppard elicited from the MSO was equally apt. Listening to this somber concerto, in whic...
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