Jaw-dropping technical precision and interpretive suavity, in very different works by Haydn, Sibelius and Britten: I can't think when I've heard a chamber music concert as compelling, start to finish, ...
In 1786, composer Franz Joseph Haydn was asked to compose a work for the Good Friday mass in Cadiz, Spain. There was one requirement: it must be based on the Seven Last Words of Christ. Haydn’s moving ...
Happily, these days there seems to be no shortage of world-class chamber ensembles. The St. Lawrence String Quartet, a mostly Canadian ensemble founded in 1989, certainly deserves that designation, if ...
Seven Last Words Henschel Quartet Susanne Kelling, Singer, Soprano Joseph Haydn, Composer The upshot will, I suspect, be touching or mildly irritating, according to taste. While they could phrase and ...