Today
Partly Sunny with T-Storms
84° F/ 69° F
Tomorrow
Partly Sunny with T-Storms
87° F/ 69° F
The pre-concert recital had the Ehnes String Quartet playing Beethoven's Quartet in C minor, Op. 18/4. It was a wonderful performance, and they got all the little gags in the finale to sound funny.
They also performed the Beethoven Quartet in F, Op. 59/1, and that was a joy. This quartet is going to be a star. They handled the finale at a brisk pace with no dawdling. Bob deMaine on his Villaume cello was a standout because there are some great cello lines in that quartet.
The Mendelssohn trio was amazing. At the end I expected the instruments to be on fire. I was sure they were at least smoking.
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Click this link to the live broadcast at the KING-FM website, then click “Listen” and “Classical KING-FM”)
Mozart: Quartet for Flute and Strings in D, K. 285
Lorna McGhee, flute
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Richard O’Neill, viola
Ronald Thomas, cello
Brahms: Quartet for Piano and Strings in G minor, Op. 25
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin
Cynthia Phelps, viola
Robert deMaine, cello
Stravinsky: “The Soldier’s Tale”
Jeff Kready, narrator, soldier, Devil
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Stephane Levesque, bassoon
Jens Lindemann, trumpet
Ko-ichiro Yamamoto, trombone
Michael Werner, percussion
James Ehnes, violin
Jordan Anderson, bass
(I’m posting this a day early because I’m going to be offline tomorrow. If you listen carefully, you may hear me sitting enraptured in Row T.)