The Dallas Symphony Chamber Players performed Monday night at Southern Methodist University’s Caruth Auditorium, as part of the Dallas Chamber Music Society’s...
Dallas Symphony Chamber Players — Alexander Kerr , Stephanie Key , Nicolas Tsolainos , Ted Soluri and Daniel Hawkins — presented by the Dallas Chamber Music Society at Caruth Auditorium, Southern Methodist University, on March 18, 2024.Depending on availability of performers and venues, concert scheduling conflicts are sometimes unavoidable. Still, it was unfortunate that two concerts with
At the Meyerson Symphony Center, the DSO presented star pianist Daniil Trifonov in a solo recital. At the same hour, the Dallas Symphony Chamber Players performed at Southern Methodist University’s Caruth Auditorium, as part of the Dallas Chamber Music Society’s concert series. For my money, the latter promised a more interesting program, and that’s what I heard.
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra concert drew a large and eager audience with an all-Tchaikovsky program that included pianist Joyce Yang as soloist.Both performers and audience at the Meyerson Symphony Center Saturday night were conspicuously — and commendably — younger and more diverse than at most classical music concerts. Presented by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the occasion was a concert by the Sphinx Virtuosi, a conductorless touring chamber orchestra.
In four movements, the sonata shifts restlessly among delicacies and passions, jitters and soaring effusions. In a gripping performance, Kerr and Nel supplied the perfect balance of intense focus, warmth and the apt illusion of spontaneity.. The arrangement, by the Viennese composer and professor Franz Hasenöhrl, compresses the 15-minute tone poem to about half that length, in a scoring for quite an unusual ensemble: violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon and bass..
Hawkins joined Kerr and Nel for that most sublime of chamber music works, the Brahms Horn Trio. After an austere opening, the piano’s first rolling chords introduce sheer magic, and the Adagio is generally thought to be a memorial to the composer’s beloved and recently departed mother. By contrast, the scherzo and finale prove that Brahms could have fun.It’s hard to imagine a more deeply felt, more warmly shaped performance than this.
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