Thursday night at the Jane Mallett Theatre Soundstreams and Music Toronto presented a concert featuring the Gryphon Trio (Annalee Patipatanakoon – violin, Roman Borys – cello, Jamie Parker – piano) and others. Also two world premières.
First up was the première of Vivian Fung’s Prayer; a short piece for violin (Lara St.John) and piano. It’s a rather beautiful short piece with a melismatic beginning that gets more dramatic and then morphs to a kind of searching quality. It was followed by Amy Beach’s Invocation for violin and piano, Op. 55 of 1904. It’s a competent, melodic piece in the Romantic tradition. Pleasant enough. Continue reading
Saturday afternoon at 27 North Sherbourne Rachel Krehm and Janelle Fung presented an art song recital entitled The Enticing Sky. The material chosen was interesting with a heavy bias to women composers, living composers and Canadian composers; sometimes all three at once.
operaramblings 