🎉 Wohoo!!! We love performing great concert with amazing chamber music, and we’ll also take a great review any day! Thank you to all who came to hear our first chamber music concert of the season at Carnegie Hall! •••• “Met principal oboist Nathan Hughes played with virtuosity, impeccable musicianship and beautiful tone. Britten lamented that Goossens played his part splendidly for the BBC broadcast, but that the other instrumentalist weren’t quite up to snuff. There were no such qualms on this occasion, especially with the Met Orchestra’s concertmaster Benjamin Bowman principal violist Milan Milisavljević on stage. This was a thrilling performance that celebrated Britten as a young iconoclast.” •••• “Erik Ralske’s flawless playing of the prologue on the natural #horn provided a mystical setting to the work. Switching to the modern-day French horn, he was centerstage in the songs “Pastoral” and “Elegy,” before joining Appleby as an equal partner in the Britten’s dizzying setting of Ben Jonson’s “Hymn,” dedicated to Diana, Goddess of the Hunt. Throughout, Ralske’s playing was marked by molten tone and flawless technique. He was offstage to play the epilogue, again on the natural horn, which in Pears’s words, “winds the work into stillness”.” •••• The first movement is primarily lyrical, but afforded violinist Miran Kim the opportunity to shine in some virtuosic flights of the composer’s fancy. The second movement, however, is edgy, fast, and furious with Milan Milisavljević again the engine propelling the performance forward.” #METOrchestraMusicians #metorchestra #chambermusic #carnegiehall #Britten