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It is very easy to focus all attention on Rattay when he leads his orchestra. He truly becomes the music, moving his body and engaging the musicians to own the music they play. With his hair flopping and his hips swaying to the Mambo beats throughout Bernstein's work, the audience could not help but understand that he was not leading a dry, conservative orchestra. He was making the music very accessible to all simply because he clearly enjoyed the music the musicians perform.
As usual, Bohuslav was all over the platform, taking the musicians on a roller coaster of intensity levels. The musicians showed great control...
It was during the latter that Rattay's great enthusiasm on the platform rubbed off on the musicians, who delivered Dvorak's symphony with great emotion...
....I saw the music living in you and it was so amazing... but the most wonderful thing was that it was still left open for interpretation...
A native of Prague, Czech conductor Rattay directed the orchestra with great vitality, which added to the excitement of the opening night.....After a brief intermission Maestro Rattay returned to address the audience with a short excerpt from a letter by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, which contained his definition of the power of music as the language of love. This was followed by a virtuoso performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Opus 64....
The young maestro jumped right into Strauss's Overture to Die Fledermaus, a perfect fit for his animated, almost dance-like approach on the podium.
The MSO musicians matched Rattay's enthusiasm, delivering in this classical "trailer" a taste of the wonderful melodies and jubilant waltzes in the operetta. The musicians seemed to enjoy it. There was no doubt Rattay was having fun. And the audience seemed swept up in the excitement as well.
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