the Salzburg Festival, Music?s DisneylandPosted by jesuslewis on August 26th, 2017 Scheduling a Salzburg trip, like my 10-day immersion earlier this month, requires tough decisions. And sometimes too-clever strategizing: My scheme to hit a bit of Plácido Domingo’s concert performance of Verdi’s “I Due Foscari,” then sneak out for Daniil Trifonov and Matthias Goerne’s recital next door, foundered when I didn’t get a seat on the aisle for Plácido. I felt bad about missing the recital, but a little better because I’d heard Mr. Trifonov — fiery yet ruthlessly clear — play Prokofiev with the Vienna Philharmonic earlier in the week. The delicious density of the festival, which ends on Wednesday, offers a lot of this kind of recompense to go with the frustrations. Torn on a Saturday evening, I chose to hear the conductor Cornelius Meister’s brilliant program rather than the pianist Igor Levit’s, because I’d been able to catch Mr. Levit’s other solo concert, a trance-like traversal of all 24 of Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues, three nights before.
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