The Harlem Quartet: Memorable at Music Mountain
by Kevin T McEneaney Franz Joseph Haydn essentially created the quartet in the 1760s and nurtured it to maturity with Mozart. The commission for Beethoven to compose his first quartets arrived in the autumn of 1798 from Prince Lobkowitz, who ...
Mozart SummerScape Excites at Bard Sosnoff
by Kevin T McEneaney Music enthusiasts have been waiting for SummerScape to address Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for a long time. The 36th SummerScape Festival has finally embraced him! The two-week festival opened with the theme The Many Faces of Mozart ...
Erinys Quartet Soars with Oskar at Music Mountain
by Kevin T McEneaney Erinys (meaning Furies) Quartet derives its name from the Oresteia by Aeschylus. They were founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. They have toured Europe and the United States. Now they are the ...
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 ...