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48 hours in the life of a guest cellist: Adrian Brendel saves the day for Ensemble 360 in performances of stunning passion and imagination.

Joan Rodger's idiomatic soprano and the surging cello obbligato were revelatory in this symbolist paean.

One always comes to a young musicians' concert with a slight hope that this will be that special day when you hear a performer who you are absolutely sure will be a star of the future. That hope only comes to fruition on a small number of occasions: this concert was one of them. I'm willing to take bets that nineteen year old Parisian cellist Edgar Moreau is going to have a glittering career.

I greatly anticipated the New York debut concert of two new European stars, cellist Gautier Capuçon and pianist Gabriela Montero. Both are artists of great passion and intensity, and they chose a program of works that reflected their myriad gifts – one mid-20th century, one early Romantic, and the last, late Romantic in style.

Prokofjews Komposition entpuppt wahrer Publikumsrenner – mehr sogar als die späte Beethoven-Sonate!