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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Win mimic Shii 2000 arts entertainment d3 so tries too hard in season debut Tchaikovsky spontaneity goes missing by James Manisher the Winnipeg symphony orches tra opened its season with a cant miss program of mostly Tchaikovsky Friday strongly played and satisfying it but not without airborne moments in the performances at times offset by too much earnestness and deliberation Over what the music was about and where it was everyone was trying hard and succeeding but some How the caring emerged As too conspicuously Bramwell Tovey was on the podium to opening his last season As artistic director of the so before taking the reins of the Vancouver symphony orchestra next Barry Douglas was the soloist in Tchaikovsky piano concerto so principal harpist Richard Turner took the spotlight in travels introduction and cobwebs the ground was certainly covered in those works plus Tchaikovsky fourth which made up the second half of the but spontaneity seemed to elude a self regu lating sense of Freedom in the whose reluctance to let things Fly one Hopes is no More than Early season cob webs for the in Tchaikovsky venerable Trio of late the fourth usually gets the Short shift in performance frequency compared to the fifth and sixth Pathe yet its not hard arguing a Case that the fourth May be the Best of especially when it comes to Tchaikovsky Oggier in which the fourth gives Little Chance to the opening movement is More Wayne Lowacki a Monipeo free press the Winnipeg symphony orchestra opens the 2000 season at the Centennial concert Hall with a Reading of some of Tchaikovsky concert review Barry Douglas Centennial concert Hall 15 16 attendance rhythmically interesting and More strikingly the slow movement is purged of excess the scherzo Pizzicato Bob and Forti fied by deftly set winds at its the finale is Crisp russian military the musical narrative is fit and Tovey and the so offered a broadly paced go of the first two the opener was Well balanced though rather Short on the nervous Energy so inherent to its the slow move ment haunt much imagination in the the remaining movements hit the the Coda of the finale whipped up As you want it to Ripe with Fine brass and with the Tchaikovsky piano concer its a Case of what new can you see on the Back of your in the Best the piece is the deserved warhorse of them you come to hear it Blaze its familiar tunes and tug away As youve heard umpteen despite a bumpy Tempo in the fridays Reading was up to the Douglas knows his Way around the piece and his Well regulated Bravura brought the music understandably since he was the outright win Ner of the 1986 Tchaikovsky piano com petition and the first Westerner to do that since Van Cliburn celebrated feat in but More importantly for the Way fresh discovery sounded so much a part of his considerable Arsenal at the the Ravel found harpist Turner at his cd Neelex Odeon bargain matinees at participating 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