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...some listeners, the yearning lyricism of the romantic composers can be painfully sweet, if not unbearably sentimental. Good music teachers often warn their students that romantic pieces are the most difficult to perform because their melodies are so unabashedly pleasing. If played with too much enthusiasm, Schubert can go from heartfelt to mawkish, embarrassing classicists everywhere. But handled conservatively, an emotionally moving piece can feel equally stilted and bland...
Leave it to the Beaux Arts Trio to get this fine balance just right. This superb ensemble, founded by pianist Menahem Pressler, performed trios by Schumann and Schubert to an astounded audience at the New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall on March 16 as part of FleetBoston’s Celebrity Series. It’s not often that a chamber group achieves “celebrity” status, but in the case of the Beaux Arts such success is entirely deserved. Despite juggling members in recent years (violinist Daniel Hope is so new he?...
Resisting the temptation for romantic indulgence, Pressler inaugurated the Schubert trio with Beethovenian stateliness, bringing out the authority of chords and arpeggios. But if the first movement felt somewhat restrained, the second movement, with its unforgettable, darksome melody, was played with less sense and more sensibility. In this famous movement, Schubert makes the most of few materials, building hundreds of bars on a single, two-note interval. The trio successfully differentiated every reiteration, varying their emotional colorings with exquisite care...
...Bedtime" a soloist danced languorously around the scenery fashioned from six other company members. Once again Morris created patterns with a movement running from one end of a block of dancers to the other. The section based on Schubert's "Erlkonig" was perhaps the most traditional, with each dancer playing a character to tell Goethe's tragic story of a son lost to the Erlking...
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