The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Riccardo Chailly
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* Notes * Last Monday Riccardo Chailly lead Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in a program of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 and Symphony No. 7 at Davies Hall in San Francisco. The pianist was Louis Lortie, whose playing is precise and music box-like. One almost felt that he was some sort of mechanized toy that was carefully wound…