The conductor Lorin Maazel and the Vienna Philharmonic, though both have complex and sometimes prickly personalities, have through 50 years of collaboration maintained a warm professional friendship. That was made clear in the Playbill for their three Carnegie Hall concerts over the weekend. ''These programs are representative of a half-century of...
The return of Lorin Maazel to the New York Philharmonic podium for the first time since his departure as music director in 2009 has been a dull blast from the past. Writing in The New York Times about Mr. Maazel's program of Mozart and Debussy last week, Vivien Schweitzer was reminded of the ''polished but perfunctory music-making and unadventurous...
Polished but perfunctory music making and unadventurous programming were often the hallmarks of Lorin Maazel's tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic. An amiable matinee concert on Friday at Avery Fisher Hall, the first time Mr. Maazel has conducted the Philharmonic since his departure in 2009, continued that tradition. Mr. Maazel,...