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...Master Singers present a night of Haydn and Beethoven with "'Lord Nelson' Mass" and "Choral Fantasy." Cary Hall, 1605 Mass. Ave., Lexington Center...
...more highbrow Sunday afternoon cultural event, T down to Faneuil Hall (Government Center) at 3 p.m. to see the Boston Classical Orchestra, Program V. A collection of "Classic Firsts" by Mozart, Prokofiev and Beethoven, the concert will be conducted by Harry Ellis Dickson. Call the Boston Classical Orchestra ticket box at 423-3883 for details. Tickets range from $18-$35, but take advantage of a $5 student discount...
Last weekend was an excellent one for Harvard, musically speaking. Among the least-advertised but most pleasurable events was a free concert in the Dunster Library on April 8, given by the Van Swieten Quartet, who are in residence at the Longy School. They played rarely-heard early Beethoven (the Op. 18 String Quartet in C minor) with a musicality that was undercut somewhat by the lack of humidity, a condition to which the group's rare, expensive instruments are sensitive. Still, they kept some monstrous repeats from being boring, choosing unpredictable phrasings and doing an unforgettable job of blending...
...Boston Symphony recently hosted guest conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Andras Schiff in music of Brahms and Beethoven. These pieces were preceded by some rather tepid Tippett, the ritual dances from The Midsummer Marriage. That music will receive no further comment, except that the reading was rather soporific from an ensemble that so prides itself on favored-stepson status with the late British composer...
...Schiff was the soloist for Beethoven's fourth Piano Concerto, Op. 58-technically the most challenging of five; and musically the most adventurous. Schiff is known for silky Schubert and playful Bach, and the Beethoven fit under his fingers less naturally. Although his prodigious gifts made for some hair-raising pianissimi, his playing lacked the requisite Schnabelian drive. He strove for a nearly pedal-free sound at times when more blurring would have been a relief, and he attacked the first movement cadenza with all the grace of an angry farmer. The effect was wild, precipitous, unique...