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CSO in Asia: With a colossal effort, orchestra and Osmo Vänskä score Beethoven triumph

Jan 27, 2013 – 9:39 pm | 4,183 views
Conductor Osmo Vänskä salutes Chicago Symphony musicians at his last performance on the CSO 2013 Asia tour, photo by Todd Rosenberg

Review: Like an army advancing from a victorious engagement, a weary Chicago Symphony Orchestra arrived in Hong Kong Sunday after gaining a success against long odds at the Chiang Kai-shek National Concert Hall in Taipei. The CSO closed out the first leg of its Asia tour in Taiwan by doing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) the hard way: playing this indeed “heroic” work in a single late-afternoon rehearsal with conductor Osmo Vänskä, then coming right back to it for an intensely concentrated, razor-sharp performance before a packed concert audience.

CSO in Asia: Grace, true grit and Robert Chen prevail as star-crossed tour opens in Taipei

Jan 25, 2013 – 11:09 pm | 8,423 views
Robert Chen, Chicago Symphony Orchestra concertmaster, acknowledges applause for his Taipei performance of Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with CSO on Asia tour 2013 as conductor Osmo Vänskä looks on credit Todd Rosenberg

Review: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra presented the first concert in its troubled Asia tour here Jan. 25 with a performance that flew on a wing and a prayer. Make that one rehearsal and the grace of some sterling musicianship. Under the baton of Osmo Vänskä, an 11th-hour replacement for ailing CSO music director Riccardo Muti, the orchestra offered the well-filled Chiang Kai-shek National Concert Hall a generous program that made a big splash even if it didn’t entirely sparkle.