“In his nine-year tenure, Lang-Lessing fundamentally has changed the sound and quality of the symphony, largely due to his hiring better and better players as orchestra members retired or left. Sometimes he auditioned hundreds of candidates for an open position, hiring no one at the end of the day if he didn’t think anyone was good enough.”
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“The evening was a wildly successful return for Lang-Lessing, his first time back with the orchestra since September in his final season as music director.”
More“Lang-Lessing took the four movements with a tremendously dynamic drive, never looking back once he let the orchestra out of the gate.”
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“Mr. Lang-Lessing has had five years to simmer his interpretation of the Second – another good reason for a revisit. The 2014 performance was vividly theatrical, coherent, and compelling. The reprise was all that, but the details indicated much additional time and thought spent in the woodshed.”
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“That performance stands as one of the high points of Lang-Lessing’s tenure here, and he chose to direct Mahler’s Second again to launch his final season after a decade as music director.”
More“German Sebastian Lang-Lessing conducted Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony as a breathless hunt for the beauty which arise from the perfect rhythmical patters. There was no dwelling on melodic or harmonic sentimentality – instead the orchestra rushed away as a controlled and precise network of voices.”
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“From the start of the performance, Lang-Lessing’s control and power both immersed and thrilled the audience. He was completely in control of the music, as both interpreter and performer.”
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Sebastian Lang-Lessing was featured on the cover of the May 2019 issue of Dominion Magazine.
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“Mr. Lang-Lessing, a product of the opera house as much as of the concert hall, showed an intuitive, fully organic understanding of the supple Italian pulse in the opera selections. He brought out all the vivid colors in Berlioz and Tchaikovsky, and his pacing was ideal throughout.”
More“Under music director Sebastian Lang-Lessing’s leadership, Friday in the Tobin Center, the San Antonio Symphony’s performance of Mahler’s Ninth impressed as expected with the seamless sense of line and direction, the telling and fearlessly rendered details, the intense chiaroscuro of the conductor’s shaping of dynamics, the cut-to-the-quick effectiveness of his tempo choices.”
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