Mr. Taddei demonstrated alert control throughout the concert, as well as a penchant for challenging innuendo in music.
“Orchestra Wellington is banishing the stiff image of concert-going, and introducing a new generation to the delights of the genre.”
“I get the feeling that they would come to see him if nothing else. Marc is enormously popular with audiences.”
“…it was Taddei’s decision to obey the composer’s metronome markings, rather than follow performance tradition, that made this a bit special. Not that things were all that different – just an extra thrust and movement in places where we have come to accept an emotional lingering – the last movement for example, where Tchaikovsky’s death five days after he conducted the work’s premiere has added an extra musical programme to the work. But Tchaikovsky himself didn’t name the work Pathetique but, rather, Passionate – and that is what Marc Taddei gave us.”
“The Ravel … was sublimely performed, gorgeously impressionistic…”