Page 364 - Liverpool Philharmonic 22-23 Season Coverage Book
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20 January 2023
Poetic Bruch and Bruckner in Liverpool
By Rohan Shotton,
Domingo Hindoyan’s golden start to his music directorship in Liverpool continued with
another astutely chosen programme of late Romantic fare, here pitching Max
Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy against Anton Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, the so-called
“Romantic”.
Domingo Hindoyan
© Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Canadian violinist Timothy Chooi, making his Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
debut, proved an impassioned soloist for the Scottish Fantasy. In his purple velvet jacket
and bright red socks, he cut an animated figure at the front of the stage, lunging this way
and that with the music. The fireworks of the quick movements flew from his strings with
irascible zest, matched by a dry, punchy sound from the orchestra behind him, playing
absolutely at the tip of Hindoyan’s baton. With a slimline string section shorn of a couple of
