United States LyricaFest ‘Winterfest’ 2023 – Various: Sophia Molina, Jubilee Chen, Miclen LaiPang, Kali Bate, Bebe Seidenberg, Jordan Bartel, Patrick Shaugnessy (violins), Andrew Gretzinger, Jungahn Shin, Alexandre Roderick, Alexi Whitsel, Josue Negrete (violas), Ella Tomko, Sammy Wetstein, Luca Giovannini, Josephina Kim, Mars Tiancheng, Tyler James (cellos). Lyrica Boston, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1.14.2023. (LV)
Glazunov – String Quintet in A serious Op.39
Mendelssohn – String Quartet No.6 in F minor Op.80
Arensky – String Quartet No.2 in A serious Op.35
Brahms – String Quintet No.2 in G main Op.111
LyricaFest is an intensive program of chamber music that options worldwide artists performing alongside rising professionals. The gamers are intensely charismatic and the abilities immense. It’s probably not a carnival, after all, however extra a novel pursuit of romantic soul. Brought to life after per week of intensive rehearsal, the live performance on Saturday evening affirmed the ability of music to deal with a common soul. Music by Arensky and Glazunov with two cellos, Brahms with two violas and Mendelssohn all supplied limitless potentialities for intrigue, and the performers took full benefit.
Mendelssohn’s string quartet stole the present. It burned with fireplace, razor sharp and but exquisitely delicate to the slight shifts of emotion. The gamers launched themselves with demonic pressure and ferocity into the primary motion after which relentlessly cast head. Stunning moments of magnificence have been swept away within the deeply unhappy brilliance of the desperation and panic that the composer was struggling after the loss of life of his sister.
The performers of the 2 Russian curiosities by Glazunov and Arensky poured all types of great colours and textures into their pursuit of the composers’ thrilling and gloriously dense, even besotted, typically wayward and typically even loud night breathing scores. The two cellos channeled with each fiber of their passionate physique language some severely seductive byways of Russian romantic sounds.
The opening bars of the Brahms Quintet exploded with such magnitude that the remainder of the piece lay in its wake. The musicians held nothing again of their pursuit of the music’s ultimate bars, whether or not it was the violinist’s delirious ecstasy or the violist’s unhappy magnificence. The gamers exulted within the distinctive bodily traits of their devices, and watching them stroke their bows to supply all types of great sounds was marvelous. They gave life to the music, in accordance with Edwin Fischer’s dictum, with out violating it. The outbursts of vitality on the finish of the piece have been much more poignant.
On Sunday and Monday, recording classes started for LyricaBoston president Terry King’s reconstruction of the Brahms Piano Quintet Op.34 in its authentic kind for 2 violins, viola and two cellos.
‘On his first visit with the Schumanns in 1853’, King writes, ‘Brahms brought along his recent works, which included a string quartet and violin sonata, both of which were lost or destroyed. This fate was probably true for the abandoned String Quintet in F Minor for two violins, viola and two cellos, the future Piano Quintet Op.34…. The obvious inspiration was Schubert’s superb C-major Quintet D.956, which had solely not too long ago been given its first efficiency on the Vienna Musikverein in 1850 and printed c.1853’.
The gamers have been violinists Alan Snow, Miclen LaiPang, violist Emily Lane, and cellists Tyler Michael James and Ignacy Gaydamovich. They intertwined and blended their virtuosity and beautiful colours to invest on and maybe rekindle the fires of the adolescent Brahms. The engineer was John Gladney Proffitt and the label HDTT (autumn launch).
Laurence Vittes