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composer from the Netherlands (1861-1934)
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- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- composer, choir director, conductor, music teacher, music critic, singer
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-01-26 00:50:57
Schumann, Scriabin Meet Surging Surf
[…] the right balance was there: Trauerzug got respect, unlike in a Gilels recording that I revisited after the concert, where it is almost comically rushed through. The scenes from Kuriose Gesellschaft and Nachtliches Gelage pieces were appropriately lively, but short of grotesque that a more literal interpretation of the suite’s funereal context demands. Indeed, his interpretation was something of a panorama of life (of which death is a part), seen from above, as in an Averkamp’s painting of a skating crowd. He endowed the following Humoreske Opus 20 with sensitive phrasing and coloring. However distant the early Romantic sense of humor may be from our modern sensibilities, it perfectly rewarded musically. The second half consisted of Scriabin’s 24 Preludes Opus 11 and Fantasie Opus 28. They could not have been played more beautifully, coming as they did with gorgeous colors, sensitive rubato, and voices not just sounding clearly, but as […]
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