Chamber music returns to its origins with sumptuous beauty from within and without.
Mozart Mendelssohn and Lili Boulanger from the Kong,Kaslin ,Sandrin Trio under the eagle eye of Mary Orr and with the eclectic good taste of Patrick Matthiesen .
Only the greatest music shall echo in the shadow of the masterpieces that adorn the silk clad walls and it was the refined good taste and the style of it’s age that Mozart’s C major Trio spun it’s magic web.
Embracing the prodigious Lill Boulanger whose short life we are just beginning to appreciate, with the few works that her sister Nadia promoted with such love and professional admiration . ‘D’un matin de printemps’ gave us a taste of what might have been. Played with the ravishing insinuation of Ravel or Debussy a sound world so particular to the turn of the century Paris and played with extraordinary colours and unity of intent.
But it was when Charlotte took front stage with the opening of Mendelssohn’s D minor Trio that the scene was set for some chamber music playing of passionate intensity and heart melting beauty. A composer who dare I say it was the Mozart of the Victorian Era and who knows what the works might have been bequeathed to the world had Mozart and Boulanger lived to experience middle age and maturity
The three superb players played as one ……I can say no more than that but it is much much more that sufficient ! Given a stage by the ever generous Patrick Matthiesen in his sumptuous gallery where music and art are inextricably entwined.
Trio :Cristian Sandrin -Enyuan Khong – Charlotte Kaslin ‘A feast of exhilaration and seduction for Mary Orr’ for the Matthiesen Foundation at the Matthiesen Gallery
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Timeless Trios -Khong- Kaslin-Sandrin Celestial sounds of refined elegance and intelligence appease even Alexander Pope
Timeless Trios -Khong- Kaslin-Sandrin Celestial sounds of refined elegance and intelligence appease even Alexander Pope
Cristian has just launched his new CD and if his own notes are anything to go by they should be performances of insight and inspiration for the Genius of Beethoven’s last Trilogy of Piano Sonatas.
Cristian Sandrin Visions of Life dedicated to his father Sandu Sandrin .
https://christopheraxworthymusiccommentary.com/2023/04/26/cristian-sandrin-visions-of-life-dedicated-to-his-father-sandu-sandrin/
Cristian Sandrin a message of Hope and Peace in Florence the cradle of our culture
https://christopheraxworthymusiccommentary.com/2022/02/25/cristian-sandrin-a-message-of-hope-and-peace-in-florence-the-cradle-of-our-culture/
Cristian Sandrin the Beethoven Trilogy the birth of a great artist
https://christopheraxworthymusiccommentary.com/2022/02/03/cristian-sandrin-the-beethoven-trilogy-birth-of-a-great-artist/
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