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2024-03-11 16:48:00
Rosamunde String Quartet. Bejamin Hochman, piano. March 10, 2024.
Town Hall. Auditorium. (Seat N117, $15.45)ProgramString Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2 (1772) by Haydn (1792-1809).String Quartet No. 3 (1927) by Bartok (1881-1945).Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 (1842) by R. Schumann (1810-1856).At the end of the concert. Bendix-Balgley, Hochman, Yao, Vickery and Li.Quartet: Noah Bendix-Balgley and Shanshan Yao, violins; Teng Li, viola; Nathan Vickery, cello.This is another concert in the PSC series that I subscribed to for the season. Even in my jag-lagged state (I returned from a 3+ week trip to Australia and Asia the day before), it had to be one of the more enjoyable and well-performed concerts I have attended.As I have stated many times before, I am not a chamber music person. It's counterintuitive that four or five lines of music are more difficult to follow than the many sections in a symphony orchestra. My brain and my ears are just not […]
2024-03-03 12:13:00
BPO/Thielemann - Bruckner, 29 February 2024
Philharmonie Symphony no.00 in F minor, ‘Study Symphony’ Symphony no.0 in D minor Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraChristian Thielemann (conductor)Images: Frederike van der Straeten Bruckner years seem to come around considerably more frequently than most others. Presumably they do not; indeed they cannot. The sense probably reflects instead the eagerness of orchestras, conductors, and orchestral managements to make the most of any such anniversary. This concert had the merit of performing two works we have less opportunity to hear, what have come to be eccentrically numbered as 00 and 0, in performances from Christian Thielemann, conducting from memory, and the Berlin Philharmonic. I was grateful for the opportunity, though I cannot say they are symphonies to which I shall return in a hurry, not when there is so much neglected Haydn and even Mozart. The 1863 ’Study’ Symphony in F minor has had ‘00’ attached on account of its preceding the work […]
2024-02-18 17:30:49
Lars Eidinger plays the man embarking on a major orchestral project, but whose professional status is threatened by family turmoil behind the scenesMatthias Glasner’s epic is a black comedy of Franzenesque family dysfunction; maybe not profound exactly but terrifically watchable and entertaining. It is about the time-honoured subject of what we inherit from our parents and what is gained and lost by rejecting that inheritance. The film features that always formidable German actor Lars Eidinger as an orchestra conductor - and it will be no surprise that when he takes to the podium at the Berlin Philharmonic, it is the scene of the biggest and most embarrassing fiasco since Cate Blanchett’s fierce creation Lydia Tár had her own meltdown on the exact same spot two years ago.Eidinger plays Tom, an emotionally withdrawn figure about to embark on the most serious project of his career. It is a performance of Sterben, […]
2024-02-16 15:10:00
Batiashvili/BPO/Petrenko - Brahms, Szymanowski, and Strauss, 15 February 2024
Philharmonie Brahms: Tragic Overture in D minor, op.81 Symanowski: Violin Concerto no.1, op.35 Strauss: Symphonia Domestica, op.53 Lisa Batiashvili (violin)Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraKirill Petrenko (conductor)Image: Lena Laine For me, the highlight of this concert from the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko was the performance of Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto, for which they were joined by the equally outstanding violinist Lisa Batiashvili. Almost any few bars – the sound and the direction it took – would have been enough to justify attendance; it was not, though, necessary to choose. Its opening, a fairyland in which orchestral children of Mendelssohn and Debussy took flight to the emergent strains of a silken violin line spun with longing and languor presaged what was to come, such interactions, melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and timbral the stuff on which dreams were made on—at quite a temperature. Whatever its twists and turns, there was no doubting the musical […]
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