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If right, that is his fault and joy too. Such was the case last week as Karajan brought off a bravura musical marathon in New York's Carnegie Hall. In four successive days he unraveled the musical and spiritual mysteries of Brahms' A German Requiem, the Beethoven Ninth...
The Verdi Requiem was a marvel of controlled fervor. Soprano Mirella Freni's concluding Libera me had a rare blend of sweetness and power. The Brahms Requiem seemed cut from velvet rather than the usual broadcloth. Karajan's reading was a subdued rumination, a realization of the deeply...
First: the Harvard Trio, as they have billed themselves since they began their extensive appearances throughout the Brahms B major Trio, Op. 8, as a pre-concert prelude. The work was drastically revised by the mature Brahms, and despite its early opus number, its introspective intensity makes it an extraordinarily...
Two members of the trio, Chang and Ma, returned for the second half of the program as soloists in the Brahms Double Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra. Here again, they infused their playing with intensity and drama; although Chang's lower register sometimes tends toward scratchiness, his tone quality...
Second: However, the Brahms in its totality remained unconvincing Saturday night, for a reason all too clear--the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra itself. The Brahms requires an orchestra that can negotiate heavily scored passages, while retaining delicacy and clarity, and HRO could do neither beyond an elemental level. The 'deadwood' in...