The series opens with two concerts at which Mr. Schiff will be joined by this incisive Budapest ensemble under its visionary music director, Ivan Fischer.
(Schweitzer) ★ Juilliard415 (Sunday) The Juilliard School's incisive early-music ensemble is led by a close collaborator, the violinist Monica Huggett, in a concert focusing on four of Biber's rich, elusive "Mystery Sonatas," each of which corresponds to an episode in the life of Jesus and the Virgin Mary.
Under Mr. Wilson's baton, the Train Bleu ensemble was both incisive and joyous in execution.
In Paris the company's newest dancer, Silas Riener, made an incisive impression in the opening ensemble of "eyeSpace," which had its premiere last year in New York.
DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS Adding viola (Lois Martin), percussion (Matthew Gold), and electronic sounds to the mix, the redoubtable contemporary-music ensemble offers an incisive group of modernist works on similar themes, including two of Mario Davidovsky's "Synchronisms" and Berio's "Sequenzas" Nos.
Beyond capturing the mixture of melancholy, anxiety and exhilaration that the holiday season brings to most of us, this tour de force of ensemble acting offers incisive but compassionate portraits of more than half a dozen complex characters whose lives are all in rapid flux.
**{:.small} DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS Adding viola (Lois Martin), percussion (Matthew Gold), and electronic sounds to the mix, the redoubtable contemporary-music ensemble offers an incisive group of modernist works on similar themes, including two of Mario Davidovsky's "Synchronisms" and Berio's "Sequenzas" Nos.
Some of these touches may have been exaggerations, but they yielded dramatic, incisive performances that left you wishing the ensemble had played all 12 concertos.
A fine ensemble also offered an elegant, tart and incisive performance of Poulenc's Sextet for Piano and Winds.
Gilbert displayed another aspect of his exceptional baton technique: he swept his arms in wide, flowing, yet rhythmically incisive motions, drawing out intense lyricism while keeping the ensemble impeccably unified.
