Payare Returns to New York Philharmonic

Oct 21, 2024

Always in high demand as a guest conductor, this week Rafael Payare returns to the New York Philharmonic to lead Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with soloist Anthony McGill, Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony, and Sofia Gubaidulina’s Fairytale Poem, inspired by Miloš Macourek’s The Little Piece of Chalk, an allegory of artistic perseverance (Oct 23–25). After Payare’s debut with the orchestra in fall of 2022, conducting Shostakovich’s Twelfth Symphony, a critic for The New
Criterion reported:

“He almost physically enacted the symphony. To the music at hand, he always found ‘the gestural equivalent, ’ as Maazel would say. He seemed connected to the music – physically, kinetically. This music can be unwieldy, but he made it orderly and compact, which was very effective. Above all, he exhibited leadership, which is perhaps the key ingredient in conducting.”

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