{"id":29892,"date":"2022-03-15T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T05:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=29892"},"modified":"2022-03-15T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T05:12:44","slug":"concert-review-australian-haydn-ensemble-mozart-viennese-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=29892","title":{"rendered":"Concert Review: Australian Haydn Ensemble\/Mozart Viennese Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><em>Mozart: Viennese Star\/ Australian Haydn Ensemble<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Australian Digital Concert Hall\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>14 March 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four musicians of the Australian Haydn Ensemble String Quartet gathered for a COVID delayed performance of <em>Mozart: Viennese Star<\/em>. Fresh from a very well-received day-long programme <em>Solar Poetics<\/em> at the Adelaide Festival, <em>Mozart: Viennese Star <\/em>focussed on the narrow time span between 1780 and 1785, during which a trio of pieces composed by Haydn, Boccherini and Mozart illustrate the genius of these three great masters and the close connections amongst them.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed on Australian Digital Concert Hall, the experience is a gift for those unable to attend or listen and watch in <em>vivo<\/em> and offers elements like intimate and interesting camera angles not available to the live audience. As a reviewer, the temptation to rewind and listen is temping but resisted, listening as though it were a live performance. The ensemble, comprised Skye McIntosh playing a 1770 violin by Tomaso Eberle from Naples, Matthew Greco, playing a 1760 violin by David Christian Hopf from Quittenbach, Karina Schmitz playing the only replica instrument, a 2011 viola by Francis Beaulieu from Montreal, after Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza, 1793 from Milan and Daniel Yeadon playing a 1781 cello by William Forster II of London.<\/p>\n<p>Haydn\u2019s good humour and unfailing optimism shine through in his <em>String Quartet <\/em>Op.<em> 33 No. 5 in G major, <\/em>nicknamed<em> How do you do?<\/em> which begins with four notes mimicking the spoken phrase. The phrase immediately rises to a perfect cadence as if the players have forgotten to play the opening stanza. It\u2019s an important curtain-raiser to the programme, representing Haydn\u2019s return to writing string quartets after a decade-long lapse and creating a new, light-hearted mood for the form by replacing the traditional &#8220;Minuet&#8221; with a &#8220;Scherzo&#8221; giving the Opus 33 collection, known as the \u201cRussian\u201d quartets, their alternative and jovial moniker <em>Gli Scherzi<\/em> (The Jokes). The ensemble gave voice to Haydn\u2019s sense of mischief with its iterations of the opening notes, never knowing if we are beginning or ending.<\/p>\n<p>Skye McIntosh took the second movement in soloistic fashion as the three other instruments anchored the plaintive G minor aria of the first violin, with a steady accompaniment, giving her free voice. The third and fourth movements were a refreshing pair \u2013 a sunny <em>Scherzo<\/em> followed by a gently rocking <em>Allegretto <\/em>in Theme and Variations form.<\/p>\n<p>Just as a bridge passage links the two themes of a sonata, Boccherini\u2019s <em>String Quartet Op. 32 No. 5 in G Minor<\/em> was an apt choice to follow Haydn\u2019s piece and presage Mozart\u2019s gem that followed. It is said that Boccherini\u2019s music was forgotten because despite his melodic gifts, his ability to develop his themes fell short of his contemporaries like Haydn and Mozart. This pivot point in the programme is an opportunity to revisit Boccherini\u2019s music. Boccherini\u2019s writing was influenced by his love of the Iberian Peninsula. The ensemble was expressive in the melancholy and stylistic flourishes of the first movement, contrasted with the imitative lines of the second. The third and fourth movements were charmingly played with added points of interest like playing on the bridge and <em>sotto voce sempre<\/em> (\u201calways whispered\u201d), leading to dramatic first violin cadenza at the conclusion of the piece.<\/p>\n<p>Mozart\u2019s <em>String Quartet No. 19 in C Major K. 465<\/em> <em>&#8216;Dissonance&#8217;<\/em> dedicated to Haydn, was indeed a riot of clashing tones as Mozart thumbed his nose at harmony. The ensemble crunched the intensely chromatic <em>Adagio<\/em> and built a relentless tension before bursting into the radiant <em>Allegro.<\/em> The second movement <em>Andante cantabile<\/em> was eloquent in its singing tone, the third movement Minuet and Trio with its nod to more chromatic colouring was expressively coloured by the minor key of the trio. The <em>Allegro molto <\/em>of the last movement was playful in its writing and delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The four musicians of the Australian Haydn Ensemble String Quartet played cohesively. The sound was beautifully blended in the ensemble moments and carefully balanced in the solo passages. They are a cornerstone of keeping alive the incomparable music and the elements of the Classical era.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shamistha de Soysa for SoundsLikeSydney\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sound was beautifully blended in the ensemble moments and carefully balanced in the solo passages. 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