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Lowell Festival Orchestra, Gerald Moshell, conducting. Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (Ronan Lefkowitz, Yo-Yo Ma, soloists); Schumann: Piano Concerto (Marta Dabezies, soloist). Tickets: $.50. Friday, April...
...three solo parts in the Brandenburg, two for flutes and one for violin. Both flutists, Halley Schefler and Ann Hoffner, were in tune with each other and the orchestra. They played the andante with great delicacy. Their care and concentration were not duplicated by Lynn Chang, the violin soloist. Chang has an excellent reputation and has often carried the Bach Society violin section. While his playing in the first movement was controlled and understated, in the fugue he appeared hurried and ill at ease with the complex solo figurations. This was surprising since his technique far exceeds the music...
...third excellent wind soloist, Stephen Hammer, played the oboe for Bach Cantata No. 56. His contribution was the most exciting aspect of the piece. His phrasing of the obbligato line in the second aria demonstrated a facility with the instrument coupled with great sensitivity to precise imitation. The basso for the cantata, David Evitts, had been recruited in extremely short order. He sounded tired, with several lapses of diction and little variation of timbre or volume. In general, he was a shadow of the big, confident singer he had been just one night before as soloist with the Collegium...
...text, translation, or even title published in the program for the Handel. It is far too much to ask of a performer that his audience listen in total ignorance of the words. This neglect is even more glaring in light of the orchestra's willingness to publish the original soloist's biography on an insert that could have been put to better...
Bach Society Orchestra. Bach: Brandenberg Concerto No. 4, Cantata No. 56 (Justino Diaz, basso, soloist), Piano Concerto in D Minor (Tedd Joselson, soloist); Handel: an Italian cantata (Diaz). Tickets: $.95. Saturday, April...