{"id":5213,"date":"2019-07-17T21:12:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T21:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2020-01-22T22:09:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:09:28","slug":"concert-review-alexi-kenney-violin-orion-weiss-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/concert-review-alexi-kenney-violin-orion-weiss-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Alexi Kenney (violin) Orion Weiss (piano)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrad.com\/reviews\/concert-review-alexi-kenney-violin-orion-weiss-piano\/9426.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Strad (read the full review)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Tim Homfray<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After Ives, Kenney gave life to the birds in Stravinsky\u2019s \u2018Chants du rossignol et Marche chinoise\u2019. There was felicitous, gently flowing passagework in the first movement of Beethoven\u2019s G major Sonata op.96. The Adagio was contemplative but with considerable drama within its long-sustained lines. The Scherzo bounced happily along, and there was tenderness in the finale.<\/p>\n<p>In the world premiere of Paul Wiancko\u2019s seven-movement X Suite for Solo Violin, which draws on Bach for its structure, Kenney was adept in restless string-crossing, showed vigour in the springing rhythms of the double-stopped Courante, and generally executed with panache. After a plaintive arrangement of Barbara Strozzi\u2019s L\u2019Eraclito amoroso, the two musicians played Enescu\u2019s Third Violin Sonata with subtlety and colour, catching the folk idioms in their melodic nuances and rhythmic flexibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strad (read the full review) By Tim Homfray &#8220;After Ives, Kenney gave life to the birds in Stravinsky\u2019s \u2018Chants du rossignol et Marche chinoise\u2019. There was felicitous, gently flowing passagework in the first movement of Beethoven\u2019s G major Sonata op.96. The Adagio was contemplative but with considerable drama within its long-sustained lines. The Scherzo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/concert-review-alexi-kenney-violin-orion-weiss-piano\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3671,3675,3673,3672,3610,3670,3612,3674,3669,3676],"class_list":["post-5213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alexi-kenney","tag-enescu","tag-ives","tag-orion-weiss","tag-piano","tag-recital","tag-review","tag-stravinsky","tag-violin","tag-wiancko"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5952,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions\/5952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}