Dear Gustavo Dudamel DG Yellow News Subscribers,

Gustavo Dudamel and his prodigious Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela have just completed three sensational concerts at the Lucerne Festival, their first-ever appearances in Switzerland. Introducing themselves with Mahler – a programme comprising the Fifth Symphony and the Rückert Lieder, with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená – they were acclaimed throughout the first concert with tumultuously un-Swisslike ovations from the capacity audience.

Early reviews are already in and positively glowing: “These musicians make their own rapturous ardour palpable and transmit it directly to the audience”, wrote the Solothurner Zeitung. “One could hear how they excel in every register . . . The way the entire orchestral palette glowed at the end was thrilling . . .”

The music critic of Zurich’s Tages-Anzeiger was impressed not only by the visceral excitement that Dudamel and his young musicians brought to the symphony’s massive climaxes, but also by their exemplary handling of its intimate moments: “Despite its size, this highly sensitive, highly concentrated ensemble specializes in chamber-musical refinement, delicate textures and fine nuances.”

After the Lucerne Festival, in which they also presented works by Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and South American composers, the charismatic conductor and his passionate players moved on to Reggio Emilia, to the delight of that North Italian city’s music lovers. In August, they will be back in Europe for another, more extensive tour; then in November it’s off to the US for the Venezuelans, with major concerts in New York, LA and San Francisco. Also coming in August, a special treat for music lovers everywhere: Deutsche Grammophon will release Gustavo Dudamel and the SBYOV’s album of their thrilling interpretation of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.

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