Reviving the art of the string duo

Par Jennifer Gersten, 14 octobre 2017

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“She plays with the fearlessness of a child touching the instrument for the first time”

Critique faite à Park Avenue Armory, New York, le 9 octobre 2017

Scelsi, Duo for Violin and Cello (Movement 1)

musique traditionnelle, Winchester Troper

Gibbons, Fantasia in A major

Widmann, 24 Duos for Violin and Cello, Book 1 (Selection)

Ravel, Sonate pour violon et violoncelle

Hersch, "...das Rückgrat berstend” for violin/speaker and cello (World première)

Xenakis, Dhipli Zyia

Ligeti, Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg for Violin & Cello

Machaut, Biauté qui toutes autres pere

Kodály, Duo pour violon et violoncelle, Op.7

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Violon

Jay Campbell, Violoncelle

David Wolfson, 10th November

The JACK Quartet give an immaculate performance of a disastrously programmed concert at the 92nd St Y.

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The JACK Quartet’s thing with strings could launch a revolution

Christopher Woodley, 11th May

At Wigmore Hall, the JACK Quartet's sonic mastery gives a lift to Liza Lim and threatens to start a carrot revolution.

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JACK slows time at Time:Spans

Kurt Gottschalk, 25th August

An insistently slow premiere by Eric Wubbels is followed by a longer work by Catherine Lamb which makes the former sound almost like a calypso.

*****

How it's done: John Zorn celebrates his 60th birthday at the Barbican

Paul Kilbey, 12th July

John Zorn doesn’t look 60. He looks 35, or whatever age it is where you’re still just about young enough to get away with wearing baggy camouflage pants. “And that’s how it’s done!” he yells through his mic at the end of the first half, over huge applause and cheering from this passionate Barbican audience.

*****

Pierrot lunaire dans tous ses éclats par Kopatchinskaja au Louvre

Chloë Rouge, 20th November

Habité par son personnage, la violoniste, chanteuse, compositrice et comédienne livre une performance de premier choix avec des partenaires au diapason.

*****

La profession de foi de Patricia Kopatchinskaja à Gstaad

Romain Daroles, 10th August

La violoniste, également cheffe d’orchestre, metteuse en scène et performeuse pour l'occasion, a proposé un concert rare et précieux dans la belle église de Saanen.

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Jennifer Gersten

Jennifer Gersten is a freelance writer, editor, and violinist from Queens, NY. She is an assistant managing editor at Guernica and has published work in WQXR, NPR Music, and The Toledo Blade. Jennifer studied English and creative writing at Yale and is currently pursuing a master's in violin performance at Stony Brook University.

Kopatchinskaja and Campbell revive the art of the string duo at Park Avenue Armory