{"id":5007,"date":"2013-04-27T20:50:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2013-04-27T20:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T20:50:43","slug":"cd-review-classical-cd-reviews-gavin-dixon-on-galkrasa-complete-string-trios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2013\/04\/27\/cd-review-classical-cd-reviews-gavin-dixon-on-galkrasa-complete-string-trios\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review- Classical CD Reviews, Gavin Dixon on Gal\/Krasa Complete String Trios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ensemble-epomeo.net\/brokenthirds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Epomeo-Play-Krasa-and-Gal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Epomeo Play Krasa and Gal\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ensemble-epomeo.net\/brokenthirds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Epomeo-Play-Krasa-and-Gal-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=aviewfromthep-21&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B008CWR7UO&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>Music by the Theresienstadt composers comes with all sorts of historical and political baggage, and while the musical qualities of Ullmann, Kr\u00e1sa, Klein and their colleagues are now widely appreciated, their works are usually presented together and in isolation from anything else. This approach is defensible in some musical respects, particularly through the fact that each of the composers who worked at Theresienstadt was transformed by the experience, leading them to write music they would never have contemplated on the outside. But the ghetto approach to the presentation of these works perpetuates the injustice that created it. With that in mind, it is all the more laudable that two Theresienstadt works by Hans Kr\u00e1sa are programmed here with the G\u00e1l. The camp makes its presence felt in the terseness of Kr\u00e1sa\u2019s musical prose; his message is concentrated because his days are numbered. Even so, there are interesting stylistic links between the two composers. The Brahms in Kr\u00e1sa\u2019s music is mediated by Schoenberg, whereas G\u00e1l takes his direct. Dance forms underpin the more energetic passages in both composers\u2019 works, but in both cases the links with any actual folk tradition are tenuous.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ensemble Epomeo does both composers a great service with their precise, lively and stylistically astute performances. The clarity in all the textures allows both men\u2019s contrapuntal innovations to shine through. There is atmosphere here too (helped by the warm recorded sound) and the long movements of both G\u00e1l works are fabulously involving, with the ensemble leading the ear through the composers various arguments and corollaries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nobody is suggesting that any of this music is being rediscovered or saved from terminal neglect. In fact, both composers are well represented on disc, at least in terms of the number of commercial recordings each has to his name. But the quality of these performances may help to initiate a new era in the reception of their works, and especially of G\u00e1l\u2019s. His Serenade definitely deserves a central place in the recital repertoire, even if it requires performances of this high standard to make its many qualities fully apparent.<\/div>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2013\/04\/27\/cd-review-classical-cd-reviews-gavin-dixon-on-galkrasa-complete-string-trios\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Music by the Theresienstadt composers comes with all sorts of historical and political baggage, and while the musical qualities of Ullmann, Kr\u00e1sa, Klein and their colleagues are now widely appreciated, their works are usually presented together and in isolation from anything else. This approach is defensible in some musical respects, particularly through the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}