Moran Katz. CORAL GABLES —The Carnegie Hall chamber music collective known as Decoda has developed a continuing relationship with the Mainly Mozart Festival, and on Sunday, two of the group’s members joined festival director Marina Radiushina for a strong program of works featuring the clarinet and cello. On hand for the last concert before the festival’s finale Friday night … [Read more...]
Neave Trio proves ‘bright, radiant’ at Flagler
The Neave Trio: Mikhail Veselov, Eri Nakamura and Anna Williams. By Kevin Wilt On Feb. 9, the Neave Trio played an historic concert at the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum as part of the museum’s 2016 Music Series. The occasion was marked by the return of the original Steinway grand piano Flagler bought for his wife, after it had been sold in the 1920s when the Whitehall estate … [Read more...]
A radiant evening of Renaissance music
As intriguing as the upcoming Seraphic Fire concerts with the Firebird Chamber Orchestra are likely to be, there’s still something so purely beautiful about unaccompanied Renaissance polyphony that the listener feels he is in the presence of a rare and endangered animal, one content to be radiant, beautiful and unexampled. The Miami chamber choir opened its 12th season last … [Read more...]
Radiant ‘Neruda Songs,’ zesty Beethoven Ninth close Cleveland residency
The five songs for mezzo-soprano and orchestra that Peter Lieberson composed in 2004 to the poems of Pablo Neruda have taken on something of a sacred aura since the death of Lieberson’s wife, Lorraine, in 2005. With Lieberson’s own death in 2011, also from cancer, the Neruda Songs wear a cloak of tragedy once you know their back story, much as Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder … [Read more...]