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2022-02-17 19:35:00
Conductor - Zhang Xian. Joshua Bell, violin; Larisa Martinez, soprano. Program Mendelssohn/arr. Kohn & Stephenson "Ah, ritorna, eta dell'oro" from Infelice Mozart "Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!," K. 418 Wieniawski Violin Concerto No. 2 Broadcast on NJ PBS online. The program was performed at NJPAC, to an empty auditorium, with orchestra members socially distanced. Strings one to a stand. It premiered at 7:30 pm on October 20, 2021, per the orchestra's website. Bell and Martinez are married (in 2019, per Wikipedia). Loved the Wieniawski violin concerto. Playing to an empty auditorium, Bell faced the orchestra most of the time. Socially distanced orchestra seating.
2021-10-04 05:49:53
When more and more pianists record Bach’s The Art of Fugue, the interpretive bar inevitably rises. As such, Eloïse Bella Kohn falls short of the best. While she’s obviously a sincere and serious musician, she realizes her intentions awkwardly. Kohn’s eagerness to underline subject entrances and to emphasize interesting secondary voices often yields choppy or […]
2020-09-12 11:00:29
[…] quality, impeccably performed by Bell on his 1713 “Huberman” Stradivarius. He and pianist Jeremy Denk play only the opening movement of Beethoven’s “Spring” sonata, but it’s enough to hint at the work’s serenity, drama and scale. You might wish for the whole sonata, but that thought is banished by the quick shift into Dvořák’s wistful Slavonic Fantasy in B minor (with Peter Dugan). Martinez is properly coquettish in Musetta’s aria from Puccini’s La bohème (arr. Kohn), with Bell revelling in the violin line’s twists and meanders. His virtuosity is on display in Wieniawski’s showpiece Polonaise de Concert, Op 4, every harmonic and trill lovingly placed.
2020-02-12 11:59:41
Whither Must I Wander? - A young American duo bring poetry & imagination to a voyage around RVW's 'Songs of Travel'
[…] feel for the poetry and lovely fluid phasing and is well partnered by King's expressive piano-playing, particularly the nightingale.This is followed by one of Aaron Copland's Old American Songs (the first set of which was premiered by Britten and Pears in 1950). At the River comes from the second set in 1952; originally a hymn tune from 1865, Liverman and King give us a quietly interior performance. And this is well complemented by Steven Mark Kohn's arrangement of the traditional song Ten Thousand Miles Away, very much a poetic ballad.For the final two songs we get not just a change of mood, but significant changes of style and language. First comes Nikolai Medtner's Wanderer's Night Song from his 1905 Nine Goethe Songs, Op. 6 (a text famously set by Schubert!). This is a striking song, the voice almost intoning whilst the piano seems to evoke bells. Then finally we get […]
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