Crowded Hours, Golden Hours: Augustin Hadelich at Tanglewood

By Kevin Wells, 29 July 2020

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“the music glowed with the warmth and contentment of a day in the country”

Reviewed at Linde Center, Lenox on 25 July 2020

Debussy, Violin Sonata in G minor

Brahms, Violin Sonata no. 2 in A major, Op.100

Adams, Road Movies

Augustin Hadelich, Violin

Orion Weiss, Piano

Weiss and Wosner a commanding piano duo in Cleveland recital

Sam Jacobson, 14th September

Orion Weiss and Shai Wosner teamed up for thrilling accounts of pinnacles of the repertoire for two pianists by Schubert and Brahms.

****1

Summer of Brahms Chamber Music Festival kicks off in South Pasadena

Laurence Vittes, 7th July

After the New Hollywood String Quartet's first violinist went down with a rotator cuff injury, 21-year old Colburn School student, violist Johanna Nowik, saved the day.

****1

Strong chamber performances win admiration in Seattle

Erica Miner, 3rd July

The Seattle Chamber Music Society presented an ambitious program with a distinguished ensemble of performers.

***11

Jazz and folk influences explored in Cleveland

Timothy Robson, 27th June

Ravel and Bartók shared the program with Gershwin, Brubeck, Thelonious Monk and others in this imaginative program.

****1

“Music for a Summer Evening” at ChamberFest Cleveland

Timothy Robson, 25th June

Works by Haydn, Johann Strauss (as reconceived by Alban Berg) and Britten filled out this concert in the midst of the fourth season of splendid chamber concerts featuring top-notch playing by local and guest musicians.

****1

Bravura and bonhomie in Chicago

Graham Emberton, 17th May

Yo-Yo Ma joined forces with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in an afternoon of French chamber music

*****

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Kevin Wells

Kevin Wells was bitten by the opera bug at 10, having heard a 1936 recording of Jussi Björling singing “Che gelida manina”. He has never been the same since. A student of voice, performance practice, the history of singing and opera, he holds advanced degrees in Italian and has lived and worked in Italy off and on since the 70s. La Scala became a second home as the Met had been during college daze. Now in his native Boston, he works as translator, tutor, and language coach, haunts Symphony Hall, and would haunt the Opera House had it not been demolished in 1958!

Crowded Hours, Golden Hours: Augustin Hadelich and Orion Weiss at Tanglewood