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Buswell immediately demonstrated his precise bow control in the Bartok. He played the opening with rough, fervent strokes but reverted to smooth, effortless attacks in the slower sections of the Allegro apassionato. Meanwhile, Levinson supplied equally sharp attacks while staying within a drier, less flamboyant idiom than Buswell...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum closed out this year's concert season on April 30 with a performance by two of Boston's star musicians. Violinist James Buswell and pianist Max Levinson '93, whose personal interpretive styles differ enormously, offered a program of Bartok's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano and Beethoven's Sonata for Violin and Piano...
...sound of Buswell's instrument appeared surprisingly soft in many unmuted passages, lacking the strident clarity brought to Bartok by Szigeti or Szeryng. At times, Levinson overpowered Buswell, though the violinist appeared at the edge of his instrument's capacity. But Levinson efforts were clearly earnest; his rejection of bravado perfectly suited the work...
...Allegretto, Buswell happily obliged all of Bartok's fantastic rambunctiousness. Towards the middle of the movement, in a mostly pizzacato section, he appeared struggling on the border between ardor and desperation. Meanwhile, Levinson conveyed the tremendous weight of the opposing force without any unwieldiness; he again showed his incredible touch during the movement's few moments of soft respite...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Willperform Strauss's Don Juan, Bartok's Violinconcerto No. 2 and Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 in DMajor. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. $5.50, $7.50 and$9.50 for students. Tickets are available from theSanders Theatre Box Office...