Local Concert Master Excels with Berg
Charles Dimmick, Concert Master, undertook the soloist violin role at last night’s presentation of Alban Berg’s Concerto for Violin. “To the Memory of an Angel” is dedicated to the memory of Manon Gropius, the 19-year-old daughter of Gustav Mahler’s widow Alma Mahler.
Charles Dimmick, Concert Master, undertook the soloist violin role at last night’s presentation of Alban Berg’s Concerto for Violin. “To the Memory of an Angel” is dedicated to the memory of Manon Gropius, the 19-year-old daughter of Gustav Mahler’s widow Alma Mahler.
Review Brad O'Toole:
For me it was a decidedly dark piece with bits of brilliant violin solos expressing innocence, reminiscence, stridency, and then moving into calm. Obviously atonal and numerically-based it is not a piece I would pay to see by itself which is probably the reason it is often performed by the local Concert Master instead of a visiting talent. The piece does not get me immediately on my feet in ovation, but rather left me internally focused and pensive.
Upon consultation with our friend Peter Poltun, director of the Vienna Opera House Archives and obvious Vienna music expert, I will need to listen to Berg’s Opera, Wozzeck, before passing any judgment on Berg’s work. So now I am in search of a great performance and recording of Wozzeck which will do justice to the music, and to our fine listening room here at Transparent.
To read more about Charles Dimmick please visit: http://www.portlandsymphony.com/module-People-display-sid-38.html
For me it was a decidedly dark piece with bits of brilliant violin solos expressing innocence, reminiscence, stridency, and then moving into calm. Obviously atonal and numerically-based it is not a piece I would pay to see by itself which is probably the reason it is often performed by the local Concert Master instead of a visiting talent. The piece does not get me immediately on my feet in ovation, but rather left me internally focused and pensive.
Upon consultation with our friend Peter Poltun, director of the Vienna Opera House Archives and obvious Vienna music expert, I will need to listen to Berg’s Opera, Wozzeck, before passing any judgment on Berg’s work. So now I am in search of a great performance and recording of Wozzeck which will do justice to the music, and to our fine listening room here at Transparent.
To read more about Charles Dimmick please visit: http://www.portlandsymphony.com/module-People-display-sid-38.html
