Leon Fleisher: Elegant and inwardly focused
David Weininger reviewed the Emerson String Quartet with pianist Leon Fleisher at Jordan Hall on Saturday night for today's Boston Globe:
"Anyone who expected Fleisher's elegant and inwardly focused playing to cool the Emersons' fire was in for a surprise. Their reading of the expansive Quintet was a case of artists driving each other to continually up the dramatic ante. Tempos were often slower than usual, giving the music a grinding intensity that only seemed to ratchet up the tension."
Read Emerson crackles with intensity
Note: No need to write me or Mr. Weininger about his conflating Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer into "Eugene Setzer" in his review. David contacted me about it, so we are both well aware of the error. The Globe should be publishing a correction tomorrow.
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