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 ...
Baldouret Quartet and Misha Dichter at Music Mountain
by Kevin T McEneaney Under fluffy blue skies that provided an afternoon shower, the Baldouret Quartet opened with Maurice Ravel’s first composition, String Quartet in F Major (1903), dedicated to his teacher, Claude Debussy. At this point in time, Germans ...
The Euclid Quartet at Music Mountain
by Kevin T McEneaney The Euclid Quartet from Ohio opened with String Quartet No. 1 in G Major (1929) by Florence Beatrice Price under sunny skies with scudding cloud puffballs. Florence was born in Little Rock to the only African ...
Sophia Zhou and friends at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening at The Stissing Center, pianist Sophia Zhou, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson, and tenor Daniel McGrew presented a delightful program of George Gershswin favorites. Sophia opened with the second and third Gershwin Preludes for ...
Renaissance String Quartet at The Thorne Center
by Kevin T McEneaney In co-operation with the Kovner Foundation, The Millbrook Music Salon, under Artistic Music Director Sophia Zhou, and The Thorne Center produced an eclectic concert of notable fragments, addressing a wide variety of styles. The Renaissance String ...
Espressivo! at Bard, Olin Hall
Last Sunday, the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle at Olin Hall offered an unusual concert program by Espressivo! 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 ...
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 ...