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 →