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~ Journal 14 ~
Tonight at Meany Hall I found Juho Pohjonen to be a distinctive pianist. The program:
- J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
This was all clarity and strong delineation, but never dry.
- César Franck: Prelude, Choral et Fugue, FWV 21
I love this music, and I've heard many r...
This is a miraculous album, and in many places revelatory. Hough achieves the impossible: hiding and revealing at the same time, allowing lines to sound together in balance without ending up in the murk. Debussy's radical harmony and chewy chords and clusters are all there, but natur...
This was the legendary Takács String Quartet, so I wasn't going to miss it (even though elsewhere in Seattle somebody was performing Busoni).
The program:
- Mozart: String Quartet in D Major, K. 575
I'm not deeply familiar with Mozart's quartets, I have to admit (I've spent much time with Haydn...
I came to this excited to hear the violin concerto by Gyorgi Ligeti played live, but I ended up less enthralled with it than I expected, and came away with the Mozart symphony playing on repeat in my head.
The program:
- Ligeti: Violin Concerto (1993)
I know this music from a recording with Pat...
