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An Evening of Bach with the Chamber Orchestra of New York
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- Parent Category: Film and the Arts
- Category: Reviews
- Published on Wednesday, 17 February 2016 16:42
- Written by Jack Angstreich
The superb acoustics of Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall assisted the fine musicians of the Chamber Orchestra of New York, under the direction of Salvatore Di Vittorio, in a second splendid concert this season, presented on the evening of Thursday, February 11th (See my review of their December performance HERE).
A charming account of Gioacchino Rossini's delightful, but too uncommonly played, Overture to his early opera, The Silken Ladder, opened the program. This was followed by an equal sterling rendition of Johann Sebastian Bach's magnificent, if indeed ultra-familiar, Air (on a G string), from his Orchestral Suite No. 3.
The third work of the evening was the New York premiere of the not unrewarding Black, White and In Between, the first of three violin concertos, thus far, by the contemporary Belgian composer, who conducted the piece after addressing the audience first in English and then in his native Flemish. This was beautifully played by the the musicians who were excellently accompanied by soloist, Irene Abrigo, last year's winner of the Respighi Prize, given by this Orchestra.
The second half of the concert opened with a sublime performance of the U.S. premiere of Burley Heath, an extraordinary early work by Ralph Vaughan Williams that deserves to enter the standard classical repertory. The evening closed on a high note with a lucid account of Franz Schubert's wonderful, Mozartean Symphony No. 5. I hope to hear these accomplished musicians again on June 23rd when they will be appearing at the Morgan Library, on a program including works by Jean-Philippe Rameau and Ottorino Respighi alongside the magisterial "Jupiter" Symphony of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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