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...Friday night, Trampler joined Metamorphosen for both Vivaldi's "Concerto No. 3 for Viola d'Amore" and Benjamin Britten's "Lachrymae." While the group itself has evolved, Trampler underwent a true transformation in his two solo outings...
Yesterday's concert, where the boys were joined by the 16-member Saint Paul Men's Schola, included Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols," two pieces for handbells, and familiar Christmas songs like "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "O Little Town of Bethlehem...
...finely polished work that achieves a French transparency, sparingly invoking Debussy (not Pelleas but Images pour Orchestre). Unabashedly tonal, although hardly reactionary, the score glows with a luminescence too long absent from modern opera, and especially opera in English; for an equal, one must go back to Britten's Death in Venice (1973), which Liaisons resembles musically in many small ways...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Performs works by Roussel, Britten and Ravel on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 8 p.m.; Friday, Nov. 5 at 1:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave. Call 266-1492 for more information...
...ridden work, plumbing its depths with the unimpaired musical intelligence that has always marked his playing. (Would that his accompanists, Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony, were on the same wavelength.) He sprints through Prokofiev's steely Concerto No. 4 with aplomb and turns in a glittering performance of Britten's infrequently heard but urbane and witty Diversions for Piano and Orchestra...