Word: musically
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Beaux Arts Trio has come to enjoy great respect and popularity among Boston-area chamber-music fans, who regularly traverse the Charles River to hear the small classical music ensemble play at Harvard. Under the auspices of the Winthrop House Music society, the group has, for several years, filled the immense, lofty space of Sanders theater with clear and precise strains of time-honored music...
Last Wednesday night, the first performance in a series of three fall concerts, upheld that tradition. This performance featured a trio of accomplished musicians who provided the audience with a rare mix of engaging music and honest poise. Menahem Pressler performed on piano, Isidore Cohen on violin, and Peter Wiley on cello. While all three are of excellent caliber, Pressler led the others with his precise and intensely expressive gestures. He was the artistic engine which drove them to create such effective music...
...Haydn was the weakest piece on the program. While it began animatedly, the music itself did not follow through. The main problem was one of balance; Pressler's large Steinway grand piano simply took undue precedence over the other instruments. The secondary problem was one of tempo; the pace of the first movement (the development in particular) was a bit slow and pedantic. This was inappropriate for the inherent liveliness and humor of Haydn. As a result, the cadential chords sounded forced and brash...
...Brahms trio was performed with considerably more finesse. The broad, tragic opening of the first movement has a striking harmonic similarity to Beethoven's fifth symphony, and the trio expressed this character very clearly. The Beaux Arts musicians seemed more in their element playing dense Romantic music than in the delicate and witty Haydn which preceded...
...abit of spark in the second movement with Dvorak'sfolksy fiddle tune. The great, heaving opening ofthe sixth movement was very successful, enhancedfurther by the spirited and well-executed surpriseending. The Beethoven trio (Opus 1, #1) served asa fun cap to the evening but did not enhance anyof the music which had preceded...