Jacques Ibert (1890-1962).By Greg StepanichAt its most important, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival is about discovery, in hearing something worthwhile that its musicians have brought out of the libraries or fresh off the stocks for its loyal audience of nearly two decades.In the first installment Friday of its third week of concerts, the musicians returned in … [Read more...]
Music review: Delray Quartet’s Mendelssohn underwhelming
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).By Greg StepanichDELRAY BEACH -- In this bicentenary year of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn, no fewer than three string quartet ensembles have played the composer's final, anguished quartet in local concerts.The Delray String Quartet closed its fifth season Sunday afternoon with a somewhat limp reading of the Mendelssohn Sixth Quartet (in F minor, … [Read more...]