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01/24/2011

Mahler miniature a 10-minute chamber-music effusion of sound and emotion

The Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra invited the Toronto Mahler Society out to join its regular audience at Trinity-St. Paul's Centre last night for the first of its Five Small Concerts, thanks to the presence of two Mahler's attempt at a Piano Quartet, in A minor, which was tidied up and finished by Alfred Schnittke in 1988.

I popped in to hear this piece, which I had never heard before. It turned out to be a quite the little musical drama in miniature.

Here it is, interpreted by Bulgaria's Quarto Quartet in live performance last year:

 

Posted by John Terauds at 09:32:37 PM in Anniversaries, Canada, Chamber Music, Current Affairs, Europe, Music, Overheard

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  • John Terauds started at the Toronto Star as a freelance writer in 1988, and has been on staff since 1997. He began writing on classical music in 2001, and has been the full-time classical music critic since 2005.

    He is also the organist and choir director at St. Peter's Anglican Church, a parish founded in 1863 in downtown Toronto.

    If he's not listening to, writing about or playing music, it means he's either asleep, unconscious, walking his dog -- or all of the above.
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