By Robert Croan South Florida Symphony Orchestra’s Summer with the Symphony, a once-a-month series of three chamber music concerts — each in Miami and then Fort Lauderdale — is an oasis in the off-season desert for classical music lovers. It was therefore heartening to see that the concert I attended May 23 in Fort Lauderdale’s Center for Spiritual Living attracted a … [Read more...]
Russian trios get star treatment from SFSO chamber players
By Robert Croan Once again, the South Florida Symphony has brightened up an otherwise arid musical summer with its superb and valuable chamber music series. The second of three seasonal concerts this year [heard 6/21 at Fort Lauderdale’s Center for Spiritual Development] was devoted to piano trios by Russian composers. The composers were Mikhail Glinka, Sergei Rachmaninov … [Read more...]
Beethoven, Schubert quartets dazzle at SoFla Symphony chamber concert
By Robert Croan Among the entire chamber music repertoire, the Andante movement from Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, known as the “Death and the Maiden” Quartet, is one of the most sublime moments. A highlight of Western classical music in its emotional impact and veracity, this series of variations on an earlier Schubert song that gives the work its … [Read more...]
SFSO quintet offers knockout readings of Dvořák, Schumann
By Robert Croan FORT LAUDERDALE — The South Florida Symphony is providing a real service to the local community with its summer chamber music series, showcasing this orchestra’s excellent first-desk players in three monthly concerts in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The second of this year’s programs [seen June 16 in Fort Lauderdale’s Center for Spiritual Living] offered two … [Read more...]
SFSO presents fulfilling concert of piano trios
By Robert Croan Summer With the Symphony, South Florida Symphony Orchestra’s three monthly chamber music concerts — one program per month in Miami with a repeat in Fort Lauderdale — is virtually the only classical music to be heard here in the off-season. Showcasing the orchestra’s accomplished first-desk players, each event comprises two or three works for a total of … [Read more...]