The towering sound of Tessa Lark at Carnegie Hall

By Joseph Pfender, 30 November 2012

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Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Weill, New York City on 28 November 2012

Telemann, Violin Fantasia no. 7 in E flat major, TWV 40:20

Bartók, Violin Sonata no. 1, Sz. 75

Mendelssohn, Sonata in F

Traditional, Kentucky fiddle tunes

Wieniawski, Variations on an original theme, Op.15

Tessa Lark, Violin

Renata Gutman, Piano

Brave new worlds from Domingo Hindoyan and Tessa Lark

Charlotte Gardner, 13th February

Musical Americana as RLPO Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his BBC Symphony Orchestra debut.

****1

An opening night of substance at Seattle’s Chamber Music Festival

Thomas May, 5th July

Chamber music values and luxury casting with world-class string players enriched this hefty program of an elegiac Bach sonata and valedictory works by Bartók and Brahms.

****1

Ensemble Signal dips into the Bang on a Can canon at Carnegie Hall

Kurt Gottschalk, 13th April

Ensemble Signal offered a thoughtful program of works by Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe and a welcome return for older works of two NYC MVPs.

*****

Seattle Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival opens with bravado

Erica Miner, 17th July

All three works were spirited, full of bravura and performed with panache and undisputed virtuosity.

****1

Intriguing Voyage Out anchored by 19th-century delights in Seattle

Thomas May, 15th July

Seattle's 2019 Chamber Music Summer Festival premiered Sebastian Currier's Voyage Out, which uses the piano quintet to reimagine the metaphor of musical journeys, on a program framed by passionate 19th-century chamber compositions.

****1

Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

*****

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Joseph Pfender

Joseph Pfender, a PhD student in musicology at NYU, has active research interests in electroacoustic and multimedia performance, perceptual agency, music and folklore, and theorizing orchestration. He has presented work in conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera, and in Athens, Greece.