Compositions by Bernstein, John Corigliano and Amy Beach given riveting performances
On Friday evenin, I went to a music festival that featured outstanding international performers playin 20th-century music.It was the second evening of the weekend-long Tramonto Music Festival, held at the Encinitas Public Library. The concert was called “Yellow Beach.”Encinitas Library sits a few blocks up the hill from Highway 101. Instead of a wall on the west side of the performance space, there is a solid glass window.
Before Beach, the program commenced appropriately with Philip Glass’ solo piano work, “Opening.” Maddalena’s brother Jacopo Giacopuzzi played it, more lushly than the composer did and with more graceful voicings. All the repeats were not observed, an omen of abbreviated performances to come. The clarinet part is acrobatic; Beverari negotiated its leaps and frenetic phrasing with nimble dexterity, with Jacopo Giacopuzzi chugging along beside him.
Petryshak and Jacopo Giacopuzzi gave a lively reading of the first two movements of John Corigliano’s Violin Sonata from 1964. Copland cast a long shadow over this Sonata as well—the mature, populist Copland from the late ‘30s and 1940s. Petryshak was powerful and scintillating in her reading, but Giacopuzzi could have toned down his accompaniment— at times it was impossible to hear the violinist, even from the third row.
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