Brahms' Double Concerto works well when its soloists have a relationship beyond the concert stage and Nicola Benedetti and Leonard Elschenbroich invested it with their own emotional vibrancy.
After interval, de Waart's Eroica Symphony was not overtly heroic, reflecting his respect for the searching, inner depths of the Beethoven work.
In the first movement, there was restraint, while the second movement's funeral march was more than ever the core of the piece.
De Waart kept grand gestures to a minimum, which meant the ensuing scherzo was closer to Berlioz's vision of it as funeral games, darkened by the sounds of death.
After interval, de Waart's Eroica Symphony was not overtly heroic, reflecting his respect for the searching, inner depths of the Beethoven work.
In the first movement, there was restraint, while the second movement's funeral march was more than ever the core of the piece.
De Waart kept grand gestures to a minimum, which meant the ensuing scherzo was closer to Berlioz's vision of it as funeral games, darkened by the sounds of death.