Beethoven’s Piano at the Stissing Center
Last Sunday afternoon at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains, Daniel Adam Maltz performed a program on a newly created fortepiano that imitated the sound of an instrument during the lifetime of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. The sound was closer ...
Aston Magna Performs the Genius of French Baroque
by Kevin T McEneaney At Saint James Place in Great Barrington, last Saturday, Aston Magna, an organization devoted to the playing of period instruments, offered a program titled The Genius of the French Baroque. They opened with the most important ...
The Sherman Ensemble at The Merryall Center
by Kevin T McEneaney In the winding woods north of New Milford, CT, The Sherman Ensemble opened with Flute Quartet in D Major, Op. 5, No. 3 (1776). In his introduction, Eliot Bailen noted that some scholars question whether Haydn ...
Arianna String Quartet Incandescent at Music Mountain
by Kevin T McEneaney The Arianna String Quartet, currently one of the very top quartets in the country, was scheduled to play Last Sunday during the tornado storm, but the concert was cancelled. Since they were spending the week at ...