They made the large hall vibrate: The Thurgau Youth Orchestra (JOTG) performed at the Tonhalle St. Gallen last Saturday and made it clear: these young people don’t play in an orchestra. They play IN the orchestra. And at an almost professional level. thurgaukultur.ch accompanied the JOTG on its tour de force through Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto and P. I. Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony. It was a remarkable performance in which the hurdles were cleverly overcome.
A look at the program booklet made you swallow a little. Can they do it? Dvořák and Tchaikovsky are two heavyweights of symphonic music, the cello concerto is a concert hall evergreen, the 5th Symphony is treacherous in its atmospheric contrasts. The atmosphere on the podium was highly concentrated. After the first few bars, the perception changed in surprise from: “It’s wonderful that young people make music together” to “professional operation of the reviewer’s ear”. Anyone who delivers such a mature performance as this ensemble deserves a differentiated concert review.
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