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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-25 20:21:52
Boston Chamber Music Society delivered an emotionally satisfying, and, above all, picture perfect Sunday outing at Jordan Hall. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-02-28 01:46:20
Alexi Kenney played Joachim Strad (file photo) Chamber works of Haydn, Schubert, and Brahms (no Kurtag or anything like it) at 3pm on a weekend may not sound like the most adventurous of musical events. Then place the show in an acoustically unsupportive setting with noisy HVAC, and it looks even less promising. But the Boston Chamber Music Society invariably gives good value and offers truly good work, and has for 35 years. This performance Sunday afternoon in the Fitzgerald Theater at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School was—piece by well-known piece, movement by pleasing movement—so musically satisfying that I would gladly sit through it again. The BCMS theme was Gemütlichkeit: publicly genial coziness, with everything nominally in G major. An arrangement for string trio of a Haydn keyboard sonata opened. The two-movement work may not exactly have been prepared by the 52-year-old master, but no matter: the characteristic charm […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-01-31 00:38:14
The Boston Chamber Music Society splits its season into trimesters, with the winter component consisting of two sessions at the Fitzgerald Theater within Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Sunday afternoon was the first of this mini-series, featuring English composers and works spanning the narrow nine-year range 1918-1927. Within the context of World War I, all three compositions displayed an uneasy, Janus-faced sense of quo vadis for a society (and class) pummeled and traumatized by the war. The opening piece was the latest, Arthur Bliss’s Quintet for Oboe and Strings from 1927. It was written—on commission from the American patroness Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge—for the eminent British oboist Léon Goossens, a member of a highly distinguished British musical family originally from Belgium that produced the conductors Eugène senior and junior (Léon’s father), conductor-composer Eugene (Léon’s brother), harpists Sidonie and Marie (his sisters) and hornist Adolphe Anthony, their brother, who was killed on the […]
2016-09-23 04:06:38
Boston Chamber Music Society The ensemble has been incorporating more contemporary music into recent concerts. Here it includes “Catch,” a 1991 quartet by Thomas Adès, on a concert that features music by Beethoven and Schumann. Sept.
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