THE ASPEN TIMES
“Conductor Fabien Gabel and pianist Seong-Jin Cho made vivid returns to Aspen Sunday afternoon. It wasn’t just their jaw-droppingly delicious romp through the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1. Start to finish, the Aspen Festival Orchestra program was by far the best so far this season in the Klein Music Tent.
Huge credit to Gabel for that (…) he coaxed magnificent playing in works by Ravel and Richard Strauss too. Whether it was finding ideal balances within the orchestra in the big, expressive moments, allowing all the layers of sound room to breathe, or setting ideal paces to keep momentum in every piece on the program, the results were thrilling.”