Brahms: Trio op 8 ( Bell Isserlis Hamelin) Verbier Festival 2014
Verbier Festival 2014: This year, the festivals final weekend opened with a chamber concert celebrating one of those musical partnerships that brings years of history with it. British cellist Steven Isserlis and American violinist Joshua Bell came together with pianist MarcAndre Hamelin to create a starry classical supergroup. Brahms Trio No. 1 in B major is one of the great works of the chamber repertoire a miniature that packs symphonic scope and weight into its slight frame, setting cello and violin in an impassioned dialogue. Isserliss instinctual style shares little with Bells polished sweetness of delivery except an expressiveness that both arrive at by very different means. Here, Isserlis responded to the musics every mercurial twitch and glance with vivid shifts, leading us in movement and muscular tone from the fugal Bachinspired moments of the Allegro to its expansive moments of lyricism. Bells approach to performance is more crafted, but was no less striking here goade
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