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The Mozart was extensively disappointing. They did the overture to Idomeneo and the 4th violin concerto before intermission, and I've never been so close to falling asleep at an HSO performance before. I think the only things keeping me awake were Uri's occasional bad rhythm or sour notes in the concerto, and the deafening snores of the old guy behind me.
The Requiem was a minor improvement. It's a good piece, not too-sweet like the concerto or whiny like the overture... but the balance was off, there wasn't a whole lot of feeling in it (that I could tell), and the end always seems a little anticlimatic to me (swhat Mozart gets, I suppose, for dying and letting Suessmayr compose the end of his requiem).
Well, let me rant a little more about the violin concerto. It didn't suck. Barely. Uri is such a mean comprimario, and he's not even that good. He was behind in almost all of the fast passages with the orchestra, and he flubbed a couple figures in his own cadenza, and he has a lazy way of letting an unvibrated bottom note of a double-stop ring flat... I don't like him. And he got a half-standing ovation. It makes me mad.
