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May 21 2013
A flamboyant and exuberant performance
May 21 2013 at 10:13am
By Latoya Newman
A PROGRAMME of vivid and lively music, culminating in a great
masterwork, opened the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra's four-concert
Winter Season in the Durban City Hall last week.
The conductor was the young Israel-born American Daniel Boico - a
favourite with Durban audiences - and the soloist was 27-year-old
Armenian violinist Hrachya Avanesyan. Avanesyan had given a
sensational performance two days earlier for the Friends of Music.
This time he played the Violin Concerto in D minor by fellow-Armenian
Aram Khachaturian.
Dating from 1940, this is a brilliant, extroverted work well suited to
Avanesyan's technical prowess and demonstrative style. The fast outer
movements were delivered with great panache and flourish, but the
really beautiful playing came in the slow movement, in which the
violin sings along, solemn melody above a gently pulsing orchestral
accompaniment.This was a highly successful performance deserving of
the ovation.
The concert opened with a crisp and vigorous account of Die Fledermaus
Overture by Johann Strauss Jr and ended with Mozart's Symphony No 41
in C major, the Jupiter.
This majestic work was played with high skill and dedication. Boico,
who has a vigorous podium manner, conducted without a score. He was
obviously immersed in the music, and his intensity was communicated to
the players, who responded splendidly, with the orchestra's powerful
and disciplined string tone heard to great effect.This was one of the
orchestra's best performances. - Artsmart.co.za
http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/what-s-on/kwazulu-natal/a-flamboyant-and-exuberant-performance-1.1519125#.UZxRrEqt7kY
May 21 2013
A flamboyant and exuberant performance
May 21 2013 at 10:13am
By Latoya Newman
A PROGRAMME of vivid and lively music, culminating in a great
masterwork, opened the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra's four-concert
Winter Season in the Durban City Hall last week.
The conductor was the young Israel-born American Daniel Boico - a
favourite with Durban audiences - and the soloist was 27-year-old
Armenian violinist Hrachya Avanesyan. Avanesyan had given a
sensational performance two days earlier for the Friends of Music.
This time he played the Violin Concerto in D minor by fellow-Armenian
Aram Khachaturian.
Dating from 1940, this is a brilliant, extroverted work well suited to
Avanesyan's technical prowess and demonstrative style. The fast outer
movements were delivered with great panache and flourish, but the
really beautiful playing came in the slow movement, in which the
violin sings along, solemn melody above a gently pulsing orchestral
accompaniment.This was a highly successful performance deserving of
the ovation.
The concert opened with a crisp and vigorous account of Die Fledermaus
Overture by Johann Strauss Jr and ended with Mozart's Symphony No 41
in C major, the Jupiter.
This majestic work was played with high skill and dedication. Boico,
who has a vigorous podium manner, conducted without a score. He was
obviously immersed in the music, and his intensity was communicated to
the players, who responded splendidly, with the orchestra's powerful
and disciplined string tone heard to great effect.This was one of the
orchestra's best performances. - Artsmart.co.za
http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/what-s-on/kwazulu-natal/a-flamboyant-and-exuberant-performance-1.1519125#.UZxRrEqt7kY