Expressivo! at Bard, Olin Hall
Last Sunday, the Hudson Chamber Music Circle at Olin Hall offered an unusual concert program by Expressivo! The opener presented a once-in-a-lifetime experience of hearing an unpublished piano quartet by Beethoven. This was one of three piano quartets, written at ...
Landowska’s World with Christine Gevert
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Lakeville, CT, Christine Gevert of Crescendo conducted a solo recital celebrating Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), the first modern musician-scholar to pioneer the revival of harpsichord music and to discover ...
Aeolus Quartet at Olin Hall, Bard College
by Kevin T McEneaney The Aeolus Quartet opened with String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 (1783) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This work is nicknamed “the second Haydn Quartet” (of six) written when Mozart studied under Haydn, who approved ...
The Parker Quartet at Olin Hall
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday, The Parker Quartet, currently in residence at Harvard University, performed an exciting program at Bard College, Olin Hall. They opened with String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op 95, called “Quartetto serioso,” written ...