In case you missed it (we did, unfortunately), Corriere della Sera's music critic Enrico Girardi didn't.
He gave a glowing review to OC local favorite, Francesco Maria Colombo, and the concert he led last weekend at Milan's Auditorium di Milano with the awesome laVerdi kids.
With a setlist of two, less-known works from former mentor and friend, Gian Carlo Menotti, and three works by Gioachino Rossini (that we have on disc from another of FMC's former friends and mentors, the late Italian conductor Carlo Maria Giulini), the Milanese Maestro knocked it out of the park:
"Colombo's orchestration was also outstanding, harmonically very controlled but also capable of opening up moments of warmth and color, as soon as the score allowed it".