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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...
...Ravel Concert including Tombeau de Couperin, Mother Goose Ballet, Pavane for a Dead Princess, and Plano Concerto in G; Hugh Wolff, Conductor, Neal Stulberg, plano Soloist; Sanders...
Last Friday at Kirkland House, four fine musicians gave an intense and memorable performance of this quartet, revealing its masterful qualities through the vividness of their playing. The music makes extreme emotional and technical demands, but clarinetist David Kass, pianist Hugh Wolff, violinist Lynn Chang, and cellist Craig Hogan rose impressively to the challenge...
...long and tortuous "Abyss of the Birds" movement. Kass showed clearly that he is the best clarinetist around. He tossed off the violent and jagged melodic lines with ease. Breathtakingly soft attacks in the highest register were followed by harrowing crescendoes without the slightest wavering in pitch. Wolff, although he had no comparable solo, sensitively handled the shifting harmonies, providing the quartet with a sure base for their soaring and sometimes frantically demonic melodies. The piece is full of fast unison passages for the strings which would glaringly expose any inconsistency in rhythm or pitch. Chang and Hogan played best...
ALSO ON THE program was Messaien's The Blackbird, a work from a later period when he because fascinated by the sound of bird songs. Marilyn Chohaney handled the rhythmically in tricate flute part with disarming ease and received highly sensitive accompaniment from Hugh Wolff...