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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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for a sublime rendering of the Bartok chestnut. Yeah, Y-Y is extremely mannered and dramatic--- but this music is! A thoroughly enjoyable evening with Ma's tone (the first time I've heard him "live") absolutely rich, sublime, and melodious. He isn't the loudest of players, being a bit overshadowed by the orchestra in several places, but the expressiveness of his cello more than made up for it, especially notable in the brilliant final passage into which Dvorak inserted the heartbreaking slow section (supposedly, the motif was drawn from the favorite song of his recently deceased unrequited love....).
Conductor Prieto was defeated by the other major offering of the evening, Beethoven's Second Symphony: the performance was weak: out-of-balance in the first movement; the last movement w/out the whimsy that is its strongest characteristic.
Finally, I was surprised to see so many females and Asians in the CSO. Vienna, take note!
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