Randall Goosby praised by Dallas Morning News for Fort Worth Symphony concerts
Robert Spano has the Fort Worth Symphony playing with new subtlety and sophistication
By Scott Cantrell
Dallas Morning News
January 15, 2022
FORT WORTH — If Friday night’s concert was any indication, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra has a great future ahead. Currently music director-designate, to take over fully next season, Robert Spano had the orchestra playing superbly — and very differently, appropriately, in three very different works.
Mozart’s A major Violin Concerto had the orchestra almost suggesting a top-flight period-instruments ensemble. Even with a fairly large string contingent, the playing was fastidiously controlled; fortes were well supported but unforced. The music was well sprung throughout, with phrases and motifs elegantly tapered.
Randall Goosby was the stylish — indeed, elegant — soloist. Said to be playing a 1735 Guarneri del Gesu violin, he drew sounds of sweet delicacy and suave nuance, without slighting the rhythmic impulse — or the fancies of the Joseph Joachim cadenzas. The “Turkish” intrusion in the finale got earthy enough.
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