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Audience members could not help but be particularly struck by Bartosik’s composure. She often played a difficult run or trill with one hand while resting the other calmly on her lap. Her cadenza and display of virtuosity at the end of the first movement was brilliant and unquestionably qualified as the moment of the most laudable musicality of the night...
...soundscape behind Garrett’s warm tone. Each song of the medley was elegant in its simplicity and beautiful in its construction. Moreover, Garrett infused his interpretation with pathos so breathtaking it was hard to reconcile his performace with the concert’s opening. His cadenza was particularly stunning, as he deftly blended themes from all three tunes. To round out the set, the full quartet returned and rolled into “Happy People,” a funk-laced ditty featuring a catchy bridge and an irresistible groove. As if making up for his earlier alienation...
...Afro-Cuban classic “Night In Tunisia.” Switching back and forth between Dizzy’s classic rhythm and a rhumba, the band weaved their way through all the twists of the tune, and added a few themselves. The tune ended with a spellbinding cadenza by Mayfield, his trumpet wailing and growling, with the audience goading him on. After Mayfield closed out the tune, Summers turned to the audience matter-of-factly and said, “There. You don’t have to go to church tomorrow. You have just been...
Take, for instance, the cadenza in the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. Other pianists too often drift from the Classical period provenance of the concerto, when cadenzas were improvised, and play the cadenza with a near seamless bravura that is more suited to the concertos of the Romantic composers, thereby losing its sense of extemporaneous drama--and obscuring many of Beethoven's boldest, and funniest, inspirations. Not Brendel, whose subtle emphases, infinitesimal pauses and canny modulations of tempo, color and dynamics create an air of spontaneous adventure. He reclaims the cadenza's magnificent audacity and evokes...
...binoculars that were handed out at the door (one idea that Symphony Hall should actually consider) the audience could take in the amazing passion of Lin's performance. The audience was so impressed in fact, that he even received an accidental roar of applause at the start of his cadenza, quickly hushed by Seiji Ozawa. Despite the faux pas in concert etiquette, Lin's phenomenal talent was appreciated with a standing ovation...