The New Jersey Symphony plans to conduct its own investigation into the purchase of the 30 period string instruments the orchestra acquired with great fanfare for $18 million last year.
Performed by a small period string ensemble and a cast of early-music stars, it offered transparent textures, stylish ornamentation and brisk but well judged tempos.
The performers were an exotic assembly: Coro Della Radio Svizzera, Lugano — a choir from the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland — supported by I Barocchisti, a Swiss period string ensemble, and Les Sacqueboutiers, a French period brass group.
If his group is not the last word in period-strings spit and polish, its members do their jobs well.
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Wade and James scored 20 straight Miami points in the fourth period, a string ended by a free throw from Joel Anthony with 1 05 left.
Mr. McGegan did not try to make his trim complement of Philharmonic musicians sound like a period group: string players judiciously applied vibrato; horn players and trumpeters used modern valved instruments.
For help with the unfamiliar instruments, Mr. Brey and Mr. Gandelsman turned to William Monical, a violin maker whose workshop on Staten Island has become a point of pilgrimage for period-conscious string players.
He had been unanimously confirmed just 14 months earlier to be the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission by a Senate whose members had hailed him as one of the nation's most brilliant lawyers, just as the agency was headed into one of its most difficult periods, a string of corporate scandals that shook investor confidence in Wall Street.
Mr. Bezuidenhout moved to the fortepiano for the rest of the concert and filled out the first half of the program with two worthy rarities: a zesty, harmonically dark-hued Sonata in A minor by Georg Benda and a lively, sometimes tempestuous Concerto in F by Johann Wilhelm Hertel, for which Mr. Bezuidenhout was joined by Le Nuove Musiche, a period-instrument string quintet.
