Renaissance String Quartet at The Thorne Center
by Kevin T McEneaney In co-operation with the Kovner Foundation, The Millbrook Music Salon, under Artistic Music Director Sophia Zhou, and The Thorne Center produced an eclectic concert of notable fragments, addressing a wide variety of styles. The Renaissance String ...
Expressivo! at Bard, Olin Hall
Last Sunday, the Hudson Chamber Music Circle at Olin Hall offered an unusual concert program by Expressivo! The opener presented a once-in-a-lifetime experience of hearing an unpublished piano quartet by Beethoven. This was one of three piano quartets, written at ...
Landowska’s World with Christine Gevert
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Lakeville, CT, Christine Gevert of Crescendo conducted a solo recital celebrating Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), the first modern musician-scholar to pioneer the revival of harpsichord music and to discover ...
Aeolus Quartet at Olin Hall, Bard College
by Kevin T McEneaney The Aeolus Quartet opened with String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 (1783) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This work is nicknamed “the second Haydn Quartet” (of six) written when Mozart studied under Haydn, who approved ...