“For its last seven seasons, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has enlivened the dull dark days of January with a festival of new music, including both orchestral and chamber combinations,” writes David Gordon Duke in Wednesday’s (1/8) Vancouver Sun (Canada). “For Festival 2020, titled (re)-creations, VSO music director Otto Tausk … wanted to revisit some spectacular masterworks of the recent past by big name international composers.… The festival will include … composers like Missy Mazzoli and Max Richter. But the real thrust is in two orchestral concerts anchored by music from a trio of contemporary luminaries: Kaija Saariaho, Unsuk Chin, and Thomas Adès. Though hardly unknown to the Vancouver audience, they all cry out to have major works performed by our hometown orchestra…. Festivalgoers here can sample [Saariaho’s] D’om le vrai sens, Jan. 11, at the Chan Centre, which features Finnish clarinetist Kari Kriikku, who gave the work its premiere a decade ago…. It will be a treat to hear [Unsuk Chin’s] prize-winning Violin Concerto … with Viviane Hagner.” Thomas Adès’s Luxury Suite from Powder Her Face—Suite No. 2 will be performed on a January 16 program with Max Richter’s Recomposed: Vivaldi—The Four Seasons.
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