Erik Nielsen leads successful Premiere of André Tchaikovsky’s The Merchant of Venice in Bregenz

The posthumous world premiere of André Tchaikovsky’s The Merchant of Venice at the Bregenz Festival has been a great critical success, not least due to the persuasive musical case made for this fascinating and complex score by conductor Erik Nielsen, at the head of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. The Festival has mounted a major retrospective of Tchaikovsky’s music: another Ingpen and Williams conductor, Paul Daniel, conducted his Piano Concerto in a programme with Rachmaninov’ s Second Symphony, also with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

Here are two links to reviews of The Merchant of Venice in The Sunday Telegraph and the Financial Times:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/10205054/Die-ZauberfloteThe-Merchant-of-Venice-review.html

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d1ac5a6a-f2b3-11e2-a203-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2ZwpWJCE3

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