(Smith) ★ Marlboro Music (Saturday and Sunday) Standards are exceptionally high at this venerable festival, where master artists collaborate with rising stars.
(Smith) ★ Marlboro Music (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) Standards are exceptionally high at this venerable festival, where master artists collaborate with rising stars.
Another was gratitude: the singers were all paying homage to their mentor, the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, who hosted the evening at the end of "The Song Continues," a weeklong festival of master classes and recitals presented by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute.
The source was the record store Die Schallplatte, the audiophile's Wagner Central in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, home to the festival the master founded in 1876 in honor of his own genius.
| July 26 at 8 30: The festival's "master series" closes with a recital by the superdexterous Marc-André Hamelin, balancing elegant works by Mozart and Chopin (the Two Nocturnes, Op. 27) with clangorous sonatas by Scriabin (No. 7, "White Mass") and Ives (the "Concord").
Other events for the festival a master DJ class with Busy P, a discussion with composer Mark Snow (The X-Files), and a late night dance party at Le Bain, the club on rooftop of the Standard East Hotel.
Her program, in the festival's Masters Series, opened with an elegant, sweet-toned rendition of Beethoven's Rondo in C (Op. 51, No. 1), followed by an unmemorable performance of Schumann's "Humoreske" in B flat, whose title refers to the four humors of Hippocratic medicine.
The contrast could not have been greater when, later that evening, in the festival's Masters Series, the American pianist Jeffrey Swann, well known to New York audiences, presented a program called "The Philosophical Piano," playing the "Emerson" movement from Ives's "Concord" Sonata, Liszt's Sonata in B minor and Beethoven's Sonata No. 32 in C minor.
