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Amid the Alerts, Two Lightly Earthshaking Philharmonic Debuts
Karina Canellakis and Alice Sara Ott powered through the bleeps.
The standout in that tiny club was Karina Canellakis, a New Yorker who already had a couple of years playing violin in the Berlin Philharmonic under her belt and who impressed me with her precision and musicality and a work ethic that would have done John Henry proud. The program brimmed with elation in a range of disparate styles, from Webern’s delight in brushstrokes of tone color to the great tolling, hollering finale of Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy. That ringing, surging, elastic vigor fueled Canellakis’s interpretation, packed with foreknowledge of the hurtling cataclysmic mode of Elektra and Salome, but also the more lilting, perfumed melancholy of Rosenkavalier.
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