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...orchestra never imposed on Kogan's domination of the performance, but under Wilkins's meticulous direction its playing was accurately synchronized with the soloist's. During Wilkins's two-year tenure as its director, the Bach Society has played a considerable amount of Mozart, and now the experience of both conductor and musicians is bearing fruit. The strings exhibited the same cleanliness of ornamentation and sensitivity to dynamic shading as they had shown in the Purcell piece; their playing, like that of the high woodwinds and the timpani, was clean and light. The orchestra and its conductor, as well...
Extensive improvisation by the pianist in any work invariably excites the audience and lets the soloist show off his virtuosity. Usually, rampant arpeggios and endless trills are well integrated into any piano piece and, in the case of a concerto, into the orchestral score. However, the pianist must also attempt to keep these improvisations in the context of the whole work rather than display them simply as a showpiece. Kogan succeeded in this regard Saturday in his performance of Saint-Saens's Second Piano Concerto. He handled the difficult solo parts of the work with consummate ease and sensitivity...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, appears Saturday for its first concert of the season. HRO presents Beethoven and Mozart, plus Natalie Hinderas, winner of the Leventritt Competition, as soloist in the Ginastera Piano Concerto No. 1. Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral") should be a proud showcase of the talent of the HRO instrumentalists. The orchestra has also selected the Overture to "The Magic Flute," one of Mozart's finest and most popular short works. The concert is Saturday at 8:30 at Sanders Theatre. Tickets are available at Holyoke Center...
...next work, Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, the orchestra was joined by soloist Stephen Chan. The concerto includes the traditional three movements; the first has something of the quality of a dramatic dialogue, alternating the tragic declamation of the solo instrument with the orchestra's solemn thunder. Chan played with technical elan but a rather lifeless tone that occasionally made it hard to distinguish him from the rest of the orchestra. But he was more in command of the languorous Adagio which followed. This exquisite lamentation is less a dialogue than a duet, with...
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