Only after the school opened, did craftsmen return and quality pick up again.To help create the right atmosphere, Cremona has been adding to its collection of superb old-master violins on view in the town hall, including famous Strads and Amatis.
The champion of the Baroque violin and his superb accompanist offer sonatas for violin and piano not only by Bach and Mozart but also by Schubert (the "Duo" in A Major) and Hubert Parry.
ANDREW MANZE AND RICHARD EGARR The champion of the Baroque violin and his superb accompanist offer sonatas for violin and piano not only by Bach and Mozart but also by Schubert (the "Duo" in A Major) and Hubert Parry.
Joshua Modney, the violin soloist, was superb in Berg's more introverted passages but could have applied a sharper edge elsewhere.
Pinchas Zukerman opened the concert with Bach's Double Concerto in D minor (BWV 1043), which he conducted from the violin, with a superb young violinist, Nitzan Bartana, playing the second line.
As brought to simmering life by Rob Fisher and the Encores! orchestra (which is indeed almost stringless in that it has no violins) and a superb cast led by James Naughton and Maya Days, "No Strings" is one of those productions that make you want to rush out and buy a cast recording.
Also excellent was a virtuosic rendition of Eugène Ysae's rhapsodic Sonata No. 6 for Violin solo by Tai Murray, a superb player who is a member this season of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II ensemble.
Compared with these wise, grounded veterans, the ravishing Ms. Ramaswamy, perhaps a couple of decades their junior, exuded a brisk, eager energy in her hourlong program, "Sannidhi (Sacred Space)." Joined by four superb musicians, she gorgeously embodied the swooping violin; the plunking mridangam; the wailing, warbling vocals.
The duo will be backed up by a superb ensemble of New York musicians that includes Jason Kao Hwang on violin, Danny Tunick on vibraphone and percussion, and Marika Hughes on cello.
