"The audience’s enthusiastic response to Glover’s warm and skillful direction on the podium was like that of a rock star. Indeed, in the classical music world, she is a star."
Cincinnati Business Courier, January 2024
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Mozart Don Giovanni, Cincinnati Opera
"In the orchestra pit, Jane Glover’s nuanced and intelligent interpretation of Mozart’s glorious score was sheer joy. Her tempos breathed, and phrasing was lyrical and warm, with plenty of drive in the dramatic moments."
Opera
Paër Leonora, Chicago Opera Theater (October 2024)
"Presiding over all was Dame Jane Glover in the pit. One rarely gets to hear Music of the Baroque’s music director in such unfamiliar repertoire as this. The British conductor led a spirited, well-prepared performance, drawing out the details and slender charms of Paër’s score while keeping the proceedings on the move. Glover’s balancing was scrupulous, not only between singers and orchestra but in keeping vocal lines distinct in the many ensembles that abound in Leonora —trios, quartets, quintets, sextets and even a brief septet... under Glover the winds brought out Paër’s lively writing and concertmaster Isabella Lippi provided a graceful obbligato violin solo in Florestan’s aria."
Chicago Classical Review
Haydn Creation, Music of the Baroque (September 2024)
"Glover led the MOB forces Tuesday night in a dynamic, richly colored and often exhilarating account of Haydn’s oratorio.
Under Glover’s vital, attentive direction not a single bar felt slack or routine, nor any scoring detail overlooked. The “Chaos” opening unfolded patiently with cumulative impact, segueing from atmospheric mystery to a blazing creation of light with the chorus in full cry. Haydn’s originality consistently came through with bracing strength and character as did the essential spiritual warmth of the religious composer’s inspiration.
The musicians delivered Haydn’s remarkable score with striking commitment, color and nuance, responding to Glover’s advocacy by bringing out all the painterly felicities of Haydn’s writing."
Chicago Classical Review
Mozart Don Giovanni, Houston Grand Opera (June 2024)
"Jane Glover conducted an elegantly sprightly reading of Mozart's score, accompanied recitatives on the fortepiano, and commanded a cast that sang well..."
Opera
Mozart Don Giovanni, Cincinnati Opera (June 2024)
"In the opera pit, there could have been no finer interpreter of Mozart’s score than Dame Jane Glover, who led a nuanced and engaging performance with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The conductor and Mozart scholar set the tone magnificently in the Overture, deftly balancing the dramatic music of the scene of the “stone statue” with the cheerful, sunny music that segues into Act I.
Despite the story of a sexual predator and murderer, Mozart penned some of the most glorious music ever written. The Cincinnati Symphony performed it superbly. There were many joys to be had in Glover’s effective leadership of this musical score. Her tempos breathed, and the orchestra’s phrasing was lyrical and warm, with plenty of drive in the dramatic moments."
Mozart Symphonies, New York Philharmonic (May 2024)
"The Philharmonic had never performed the symphony before Wednesday, and under Glover’s baton it flowed with the same nimble, unaffected naturalness as the rest of the program: four pieces, including three Mozart symphonies, from the final three decades of the 18th century. Glover’s tempos throughout the concert were sensible and unexaggerated, with ample room to breathe but no dragging, and the playing was lovely."
"The second half of the concert opened with Symphony No. 13 in F major, K.112 composed in 1771. It may not be Mozart at his weightiest musically or emotionally, but conductor and orchestra made a charming case for the youthful endeavor in its first performance by the
NY Phil. The opening Allegro was exciting and vibrant, a perfect complement to the lightness and delicacy of the Andante. Glover led the strings in a robust reading of the Menuetto, which was enlivened by the incisive bowing of the strings."
Mozart Don Giovanni, Houston Grand Opera (April 2024)
"Of course, the most important returnee was Mozart’s music and from the first notes as directed by the UK’s acclaimed Dame Jane Glover it was impossible not to be swept up in it and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto filled with passion, tragedy and take-a-breath comic moments."
Bach St John Passion, Music of the Baroque (March 2024)
"MOB’s music director is an experienced hand at these complex scores, and Glover’s performances of this repertoire have become deeper and more eloquent over her two decades in Chicago, plumbing the spirituality as much as the narrative drama. With some remarkable choral singing and a largely excellent lineup of soloists, this powerful and affecting St. John Passion was in the same sturdy tradition of Glover’s past Bach performances."
Mozart Symphonies, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (January 2024)
"The audience’s enthusiastic response to Glover’s warm and skillful direction on the podium was like that of a rock star. Indeed, in the classical music world, she is a star.
Among her many gifts, she is a renowned Mozart specialist, scholar and author. She has been music director of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque since 2002. Her distinguished work for decades on both sides of the Atlantic continues to impress on both symphony and opera stages.
Most of all, Glover’s obvious joy in leading Mozart’s music clearly communicated to listeners in Music Hall. Each work engaged the ear with stylish interpretation as well as with the profound humanity that colors Mozart’s music.
Glover led without a score, getting directly into the heart of each moment of this miraculous music. The musicians responded with pristine playing. Following lengthy ovations by the audience, the orchestra awarded Glover her own bow."