Word: cellies
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After enjoying a fine opening from especially impressive celli, the audience was temporarily blinded by the bright, glassy, modern set, and seemed surprised by the English-language production. It's usually a bad idea to translate German libretti. It's also risky to tamper with the original setting of a staged work of art. Why, then, did this "Fledermaus" come off so well? Because it was damn funny...
...friends Menahem Pressler and Daniel Guilet approached him in 1955, he agreed to join them for eight to ten concerts. He has been a part of the Beaux Arts Trio ever since. Greenhouse, age 64, plays a Stradivarius cello, 210 years older than himself. Stradivarius only made 60 celli, and today only 15 are in their original state. Greenhouse is quite protective of his, and he always carries it on board airplanes with him. Due to its size, the cello flies first class, while the cellist flies coach...
...strong, rhythmic Schubert's Third Symphony opened Saturday evening's program; basses and celli played with striking clarity, and the string sound was alive and tuned. The last three movements were less compeling in rhythm than the first, and the winds were often out of tune, but these were minor obstacles to the emotional realization of the music, which was always there...
...even if the orchestra had played only the third movement, the concert would have been the finest the HRO has given this season. The movement is incredibly sensual, and the intensity of Yannatos' interpretation enhanced this quality. The melody, introduced by the celli, is first picked up by the rest of the strings, and finally by the oboe and the rest of the orchestra. The tension builds slowly with only momentary relief, until the audience almost aches for it to end. But it continues until the trumpets recall the melody of the first movement at the climax, and the violins...
...accompaniment, he was calling for every ounce of expression the pianist could muster, and exposing it to the audience. Levin rose to the challenge, with an admirable blend of feeling and control. Mozart is not as sure fire as Telemann, and it kept the orchestra on its toes. The celli were lithe and interesting on a part that can't have been intrinsically fascinating...