OUT OF TOWN COOPERSTOWN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL The young American pianist Simone Dinnerstein, who has just made an elegant and assured recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations for the Tel-arc label, performs the work (without intermission) in a concert at the Otesaga Resort Hotel.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet OUT OF TOWN COOPERSTOWN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL The young American pianist Simone Dinnerstein, who has just made an elegant and assured recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations for the Tel-arc label, performs the work (without intermission) in a concert at the Otesaga Resort Hotel.
Here and in the two works before intermission, Ms. Mutter was the more aggressive player, her powerful sound a contrast to Mr. Bashmet's warm, buttery tone (too infrequently heard throughout the concert) and Mr. Harrell's more lyrical approach.
After the intermission Mr. Song reconfigured his approach, going for explosiveness and not much else in works that are richer than that.
Allen had done his best work before intermission.
Near the end (this is a 90-minute work, without intermission), a burst of deadpan authenticity makes its entrance.
Nor did Mr. Taylor make a persuasive case for taking an intermission in this work.
And an intermission in a work that even on a public stage creates such a closed and intimate universe can take a performer out of his zone, as it seemed to do here.
There was no particular reason to follow the Finnish works after intermission with Brahms's Second Symphony.
Those who saw him two weeks ago in the Works in Process series at the Guggenheim Museum would be familiar with the extraordinary solo Ms. Blackwell performed during intermission.
Even so, the first half of the program belonged less to Mr. Maazel than to the pianist Leon Fleisher, the soloist in both works played before the intermission.
