In Thursday’s (11/5) Philadelphia Inquirer, David Patrick Stearns profiles Scottish Chamber Orchestra Principal Conductor Robin Ticciati, who has guest conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra and returns this weekend for concerts at the Kimmel Center. “Audiences and critics [in Philadelphia] have been hugely receptive to the 32-year-old Ticciati, often spoken of as his generation’s Simon Rattle—extroverted talent, corkscrew hair, and ebullient personality…. Though anything but a specialist, Ticciati has repertoire hot spots, starting with Schumann, whose Symphony No. 4 he’ll conduct this week… ‘Late Schumann becomes more intense, abstract, and yet more personal,’ he says. ‘He was letting the inner voice come out in many different ways. In the romantic era, [artists] were obsessed by ruins and fragments. And when I look at late Schumann, I see fragments and ruins.’ ” Stearns calls Ticciati “a fully realized personality with equal parts vision and practicality. Though his Schumann recordings are widely considered among smaller-orchestra performances, Ticciati isn’t making the Philadelphia Orchestra sound like his Scottish Chamber Orchestra…. ‘They will be very different from the recording, but I hope the idea, the gesture, rhetoric, contour, and contrapuntal voices remain. You never go to an orchestra and make them sound like another orchestra.’ ”
Posted November 6, 2015
