Concert Review
The music concert this review covers is the Plano Symphonys
rendition of the Beethovens Choral Fantasy in C minor and Symphony
No. 9, The Choral, in D minor. The concert was held at a church in
April 16, 2016, and it was a sold out performance. Since it was a
night simply dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven, the
symphonytitled
the concert as Best of Beethoven.
The first part of the concert played Beethovens Choral
Fantasy, also known as Fantasia, and it lasted less than 30
minutes. It opened with a lady named Anastasia Markina, and she
introduced the piece with a slow virtuoso playing of the piano, to
which later on the strings, cellos and basses, enter. Then Markina
played an ornamented version of the choral theme, to
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Beethoven
followed the typical pattern of Classical symphonies with the
sonata form first; however instead of having a slow movement of
themes and variations follow the sonata form, he places the scherzo
first. This was actually the first that Beethoven places the
scherzo before the slower movement. For the second movement, the
scherzo, it follows a sonata form and incorporates fugue techniques
in the exposition. The piece ends with a chorus and the symphony
also features 4 vocal soloists: Ranielle Krause, Caroline Nielsom,
San-Ky Kin, and Curtis Streetman. Thus, this piece follows the
Choral Symphony
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Though my ears
are not exceptionally honed nor trained to point out musical
mistakes, I would like to add that mistakes, if any, were not
thoroughly noticeable. The musicians blended well and produced the
right effect based on the musical context. However, when the vocal
soloists sang in the final movement of the Ninth Symphony, their
voices were drowned out by the loudness of the
orchestraand
large chorus. It did not help that the soloists were located lower
than chorus, which made the perception of hearing the soloists more
difficult. The conductor, Hector Guzman, was effective in leading
the
musicin that
whenever the piece called for dynamics, his movements told the
musicians how much more or less it was needed. And also, Mr. Guzman
did not just interact with the orchestra, but the chorus and vocal
soloists as well. He seemed to be respected by his fellow musicians
and gave the proper recognition to the soloists of
the
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