Dima Slobodeniouk
Photo: Marco Borggreve, courtesy of the NY Philharmonic
Press release this morning:
Dima Slobodeniouk To Make His New York Philharmonic Debut Replacing Semyon Bychkov
November 17–19, 2021, at Alice Tully Hall
Semyon Bychkov will be unavailable to conduct the New York Philharmonic’s performances at Alice Tully Hall, November 17–19. He will be replaced by Dima Slobodeniouk in his New York Philharmonic debut. The program — featuring Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with soloist Karen Gomyo in her Philharmonic subscription debut and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1, Winter Dreams— remains unchanged.
I saw Dima Slobodeniouk at the BSO two years ago conducting Elgar and Nielsen and thought he was excellent, so don't turn in your tickets!
And Slobodeniouk conducted SFS for the first time just before the pandemic. I reviewed that, and found him a vigorous and emphatic conductor of extroverted works like Beethoven's Seventh, with an interestingly atavistic approach to the orchestral role in Sibelius' Violin Concerto: he treated it as a platform for soloist display, as if it were Paganini or the like.
ReplyDeleteBychkov is great, but I agree: Slobodeniouk is well worth a listen.