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There is no right reaction to great music
Quite justifiably the adventurous Matangi Quartet from the Netherlands received acclaim for their recent recording of quartets by Silvestrov, Schnittke, and Shostakovich. But their 2022 ECM disc of Ruins and Remains, a suite for piano, string quartet and percussion composed by Wolfert Breferode slipped under the media radar, probably because in the meaningless ontology of music genres it is pigeonholed as 'jazz'. Composer Wolfert Breferode again defies those meaningless pigeonholes: he studied classical and jazz piano at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague before establishing a formidable reputation as a leading Dutch jazz pianist and recording four albums for ECM.Ruins and Remains was composed by Wolfert Breferode in 2018 in response to a commission to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Since the premiere however the work has evolved to embrace a wider perspective on human frailty, helped by the improvisatory experiments of the Matangi Quartet and […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-10 17:39:41
In their second season as an as-yet-unnamed partnership, the well-known soloists Stella Chen, violin; Matthew Lipman, viola; and Brannon Cho, cello will make mark an intriguing Boston debut recital at Jordan Hall Saturday night for the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts with Leo Weiner’s String Trio in G minor, Op. 6, Emmy Frensel Wegener’s Suite for Violin, Viola, and Cello; Gideon Klein’s String Trio, and Mozart’s Divertimento in E-flat Major, K. 563. More details on the concert and ticketing can be found HERE . The players reponded collectively to our questions. This program is one we absolutely adore. It would be impossible to deny that one of the biggest draws of forming a string trio is getting to truly live with the Mozart Divertimento ― a piece so grand, loved, and profound. We’ve paired it with three seldom played works that are full of spirit, character, and every bit as […]
2023-12-31 16:56:00
Since I am busy at work on my new book project, a two-volume study of the complete operas of Mozart in their eighteenth-century political and intellectual context, it seems fitting to have heard more music by Mozart than by any other composer this year. (For 'rules' on counting, please see my previous post.) Beyond my top four, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, and Strauss, I heard a good range of music from Alkan to Zimmermann and beyond.19 Mozart 12 Wagner 8 Beethoven, Strauss 7 Brahms, Schumann 6 Bach 5 Schubert, Byrd 4 Mahler, Prokofiev 3 Benjamin, Chopin, Ligeti, Liszt, Ravel 2 Berg, Bizet, Debussy, Dvořák, Handel, Haydn, Henze, Knussen, Puccini, Schoenberg 1 Alkan, Dieter Ammann, CPE Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, JCF Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berberian, Berio, Boismortier, Boulez, Busoni, Cage, Chausson, Cherubini, Unsuk Chin, Coleridge-Taylor, Crumb, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Francesco Filidei, Grisey, Saed Haddad, Hartmann, Hindemith, Holliger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Janáček, […]
2023-11-24 15:00:32
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