Violinist Lisa Batiashvili is brilliant in Beethoven, and the orchestra responds marvelously to Ticciati.
Sony Classical has put out a 22-CD anthology that captures the heyday of recordings devoted to this American composer.
It’s not easy to parse the composer’s ironic, often anguished music, even 50 years after his death.
Is the orchestra’s former associate conductor, who now has a flourishing international career, a contender to succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen?
