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Lynn Chang, fresh from his spectacular first prize in the Paganini, and Richard Kogan, fresh from his spectacular performance with the Bach Society, play the Kreutzer and Brahms's 3rd violin sonata at the Gardner Museum Sunday afternoon--but they'll be playing a similar concert next week at Sanders, closer to home. Also of special interest is Poulenc's Babar the Elephant, for piano and narrator, Saturday evening at Currier House...
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G completed the concert with half a dozen curtain calls and rounds of applause. Richard Kogan, in his solo performance, achieved a combination of passion and sweetness expressed through an extraordinary technique that no other pianist at Harvard has paralleled. Pianistically, the Fourth Concerto is probably the most difficult of the five Beethoven wrote. But Kogan played the intricate passages of trills and double thirds seemingly without effort, while on a large scale he projected a carefully balanced scheme of dynamics that caught and held the audience's attention. Combined with the grandeur...
...common sense would tend to confirm that the new Bach Society will be better than the last. The talented new conductor, Hugh Wolff, promises a real symphonic sound in concerts spanning the spectrum of music history. This Saturday the Bach Society presents Harvard's first orchestral concert, featuring Richard Kogan, winner of last year's HRO concerto competition, in Beethoven's 4th. Concert-goers, take heed of this auspicious occasion. Karen Hsiao...
...Bach Society Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, Conductor, plays Debussy: L'apres-midi D'un Faune; Mozart: "Paris" Symphony, K. 297; and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, in G, Richard Kogan, Piano. Tickets: $1.00 at Holyoke Center and the Door. Saturday...
...first movement, Allegro, was refined to the last trill. Communication between the members of the trio was heartfelt, but the blending of the piano, cello, and violin depended on where you sat. People on the right had trouble hearing Kogan, people in back, Ma, and people on the left, Chang. This mattered little in the second movement, which was the evening's highlight. A rush of applause and ovation cheered the trio for one of the most exciting performances at Harvard in many years...