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“Viva Italia and ASO”.
Marco Zuccarini conducted an outstandingly conceived and
executed guided tour of his homeland’s music for
the ASO. Being a local, he knew all the best spots to
visit so that intererest and excitement accumulated throughout,
culminating in a thrilling finale. At each stop, the orchestra
was infused with his passion to show his selections in
the best light...In Rossini’s “La Gazza Ladra”
his discipline was incontrovertible from the first rolls
of the snare drums and the upbeat string trills. Crisp
repeated wind chords opened Mendelssohn’s4th Symphony
with such verve ....( In Respighi’s “Pines of
Rome”) the conductor loosed his reins, launching
himself and the orchestra into a torrent of gorgeous sound.
The exuberance of the playing overshadowed the lack of
any great substance in the music itself. My applause for
Signor Zuccarini and the ASO.
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Elisabeth Silsbury
The Advertiser, Adelaide, 20th September 1999 |
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...the four movements of “My Country Childhood”..sensitively
conducted by Marco Zuccarini...Tchaikowsky’s 5th
Symphony is somewhat uneven , as the composer recognised,
but the only way to play it is to bring a consistent
level of convinction to the whole work, as if everything
were equally inspired. Zuccarini’s committed performance
certainly did this...the condutor is a first-class artist...
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Tristram Cary
The Australian, 1st October 1999 |
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Every once a while, the myriad factors that constitute
music performance fall so feliciously into place that
the result is magical...Employing body language of the
most extrovert and energetic sort, Marco Zuccarini secured
from the W.A.S.O. an alert and committed reading of
Prokofieff’s Classical Symphony, bringing astonishing
clarity to inner instrumental lines that in lesser performances
can sound like so much sonic sludge.....(in Mozart’s
Piano Concerto K.467) from the podium Zuccarini was
as persuasive as in the symphony, working wonders in
coaxing from the WASO stylish and meaningful accompaniment..
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Neville Cohn
The West Australian, 4th October 1999 |
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