Review: International roster of classical musicians shine in second Chamberfest West yyc
This year’s festival had a Shakespearean tinge, evident a program entitled Dances with Shakespeare and in the final program Sunday evening labeled If Music Be the Food of Love. Beyond Shakespearean allusions, there were many subtle programming interconnections. These included such elements as a program based on variation techniques, a program that featured John Adam’s Shaker Loops, based in a different type of variation technique.
The title piece for this concert was Shaker Loops, one of John Adams’s best-known works, filled with complex textures and coinciding and non-coinciding rhythms, all in his patented minimalist style. Semi-soloistic in its writing, the piece benefitted greatly from the high performing level of each performer, the evident virtuosity of each player creating a vibrant buzz to the performance, representative, musically speaking, of the religious ecstasy of New England Shakers of the past.
Michael Stephen, Brown, the composer and accompanist, provided sensitive accompaniments, some of them extended instrumental reflections on the texts in the manner of Schumann, if with harmonies that evoked the sound world of Ravel. Two mainstream works followed: Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet and Robert Schumann’s Quintet in E-flat major for piano and strings. Both were beautifully balanced, integrated performances, with a high degree of sophistication in performance from all performers.
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