Here is a selection of reviews and mentions from Karina’s wonderful summer of performances at the Tanglewood Festival!
From the July 30th edition of the Berkshire Eagle (Andrew L. Pincus):
“Conducting fellow Karina Canellakis and two vocal fellows, soprano Laura Strickling and mezzo-soprano Loralee Songer, performed the Sibelius songs. The rustling orchestral writing sometimes recalled the Sibelius of the more familiar symphonies but the vocal lines showed a different side of the composer, still lonely and melancholic but also gentle and affectionate.
“The Jewish Girl’s Song,” for mezzo-soprano, enshrines a captive’s longing to see Jerusalem again. “Autrefois” (“Once Upon a Time”), a duet, is a pastoral with a shepherdess calling to her beloved. “Luonnotar,” a tone poem for soprano, recounts a virgin’s wanderings until a teal guides her to giving birth to the earth and heavens. The texts are in Swedish or Finnish.
All three songs were beguiling in performance. In its longing, “The Jewish Girl’s Song” recalled Dvorak’s “Song to the Moon” in “Rusalka.””
From the July 22nd edition of New York Times (Zachary Woolfe):
“Charlotte Bray’s powerfully expectant “At the Speed of Stillness” (2012), conducted by Ms. Canellakis, managed the difficult feat of evoking ceaseless motion without feeling driven: It gave a sense of pulsating in place.”
Brava, Karina!