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...three of the best musicians at Harvard give a joint performance? They might engage in a battle of the gods, each trying to outdo the others. Or they might do what Lynn Chang. Yo Yo Ma and Richard Kogan did last Saturday night during their performance of Beethoven's Concerto for Violin. Cello, and Piano. The "Triple Concerto" rarely appears on concert programs because of the difficulty of finding three virtuoso musicians willing to share the spotlight. But none of the three Harvard undergrads playing with the Bach Society tried to upstage the others. Instead they played with a keen...
...sensitive accompaniment, the Bach Society orchestra moved to the background, both physically and musically, to give room to the soloists. But the group opened its final concert inauspiciously, presenting the first piece they have played this year that was composed by their namesake. Bach, in his Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, abandoned his usual use of a group of a solo instruments against an orchestral background. Originally intended for chamber performance, the third concerto calls for three violins, three violas, and three cellos, each group acting as a unit. The string orchestra that played last Saturday was heavily weighted against...
With Paganini Competition winner Lynn Chang graduating in June, the Kogan/Chang/Ma trio will give its final Harvard performance this Saturday with the Bach Society. They will pit their formidable technical and musical skills against the Beethoven Triple Concerto, known affectionately as the Cripple Concerto because of the tremendous demands it makes upon the soloists. Stravinsky's marvelous Pulcinella Suite will also be on the program...
Bach Brandenburg Concerto #3, Stravinsky, Puicinella Suite, Astrous, a new work by John Thow, and Beethoven's Triple Concerto; Bach Society Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, conductor, Richard Kogan, piano, Lynn Chang, violin, and Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Sanders...
Tchalkovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy as orchestrated by Liszt, and the Brahms Violin Concerto; Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Richard Kogan, piano, Lynn Chang, violin. The St. Lowell-in-the-Fields Orchestra, Gerald Moshell, conductor; Lowell House Dining Hall; two performances...