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Beethoven's Spring Sonata, a Chopin Ballade, and other works for piano and/or violin; Lynn Chang, violin and Richard Kogan, piano; Cabot Hall Living Room at South House...
Gerry Moshell and his fall pickup orchestra, the Kirkland Concertgebouw, will deliver the well-loved Grieg piano concerto and Mendelssohn violin concerto Saturday night. Starring will be the dynamic violin-piano duo of Lynn Chang and Richard Kogan, who will also perform solo works of Chopin and Tartini. At 8, with a repeat performance at 11; Kirkland...
Reaching even further beyond the standard repertory, the all-Harvard team of Richard Kogan, piano, Lynn Chang and Robert Portney, violins, played a Trio by Moskowski, a turn-of-the-century Polish composer. The threesome showed their justifiably condescending attitude toward this shallow piece by appearing in Harvard sweatshirts, matching musical kitsch with visual kitsch. Fortunately, they treated this bubble gum in a sufficiently good-humored way to prevent its sweetness from becoming sickening...
...only trouble spot in the concert was the Weber Trio in G minor. One of only three chamber works by Weber, this piece changes mood rapidly, sometimes striving toward the darker musical depths, sometimes, as in the second movement, content to rely on an engaging dance-like tune. While Kogan showed a sensitive ability to vary his tone and style in response to the shifting demands of the music, flutist Laurel Zucker tended toward shrill, unsupported bursts of sound in the high register in trying to create big dramatic events, and cellist Kevin Plunkett, with gruff attacks and a hard...
WHAT HAPPENS when three of the best musicians at Harvard give a joint performance? They might engage in a battle of the gods, each trying to outdo the others. Or they might do what Lynn Chang. Yo Yo Ma and Richard Kogan did last Saturday night during their performance of Beethoven's Concerto for Violin. Cello, and Piano. The "Triple Concerto" rarely appears on concert programs because of the difficulty of finding three virtuoso musicians willing to share the spotlight. But none of the three Harvard undergrads playing with the Bach Society tried to upstage the others. Instead they played...