In rural New England, music from three centuries played with aplomb

By Kurt Gottschalk, 21 July 2019

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“it was complicated in the ways that the varieties of emotions and events in a given day can be”

Reviewed at YellowBarn, Putney on 19 July 2019

Aho, Quintet for bassoon and string quartet

Henze, Being Beauteous

Fauré, Piano Quartet no. 2 in G minor, Op.45

Bach, Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem - Cantata, BWV159: Es ist vollbracht

Yen-Chen Wu, Bassoon

Jaha Lee, Violin

Mann-Wen Lo, Violin

Sarah Sung, Viola

Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Cello

Rachel Schutz, Soprano

Noë Wan, Harp

Alexander Kovalev, Cello

Annie Jacobs-Perkins, Cello

Yunwen Chen, Cello

Natasha Brofsky, Cello

Emely Phelps, Piano

Claire Bourg, Violin

Maren Rothfritz, Viola

Sein Lee, Cello

William Sharp, Baritone

Mark Hill, Oboe

Leonard Fu, Violin

Yiliang Jiang, Violin

Maria Lambros, Viola

Michael Kannen, Cello

Stephen Coxe, Harpsichord

Pete Walsh, Double Bass

Tunes for the Moon at Vermont's Yellow Barn

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th July

On the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, the musicians of Yellow Barn played a wide-ranging program of works inspired by the night sky.

****1

A smorgasbord of seasonal English music in Washington DC

Cristina Burack, 22nd December

The early music ensemble peppered its diverse program with the rollicking play A Christmas Messe. While not all arrangements worked well, expertise and emotion made for a pleasurably unique performance.

***11

Opera Lafayette revives an 18th-century comic gem

Zerbinetta, 26th January

Opera Lafayette has uncovered a fascinating work in their revival of Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny’s 1762 comic opera Le roi et le fermier (The King and the Farmer). The Washington, D.C.

****1

Kurt Weill meets Francis Poulenc in Opera Parallèle's innovative production

Jaime Robles, 25th April

Opera Parallèle combines Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel and Francis Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias in a riotous opera-within-an-opera production.

*****

Tunes for the Moon at Vermont's Yellow Barn

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th July

On the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, the musicians of Yellow Barn played a wide-ranging program of works inspired by the night sky.

****1

A dream of a Gerontius from Pappano, the LSO and Chorus

Roy Westbrook, 21st April

Giving their 27th performance of the oratorio, the London Symphony Chorus excel as angelic angels and demonic demons.

****1

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Kurt Gottschalk

Kurt Gottschalk is a journalist and author based in New York City. His writings on contemporary and classical music, jazz and improvisation have been published in outlets throughout Europe and America and he has two volumes of short fiction to his name. He produced and hosted the Miniature Minotaurs radio programme on WFMU and currently hosts Afternoon New Music on WKCR.