"Some musicians have the rare ability of sending the music they play right to the hearts of their audience. The Boston Chamber Music Society musicians who performed Sunday afternoon in Sanders Theater did just that. How did they do it? Was it their special level of coordination with one another? Was it some deeply shared insight into the music? Was it Marcus Thompson’s initiative of proposing the theme of “Darkness and Deliverance” as a way of probing the scores? Guest artists, pianist Benjamin Hochman and cellist Nicholas Canellakis, joined Jennifer Frautschi and Marcus Thompson seamlessly, communicating and interacting as if they had been playing together for years, conveying layers of unsuspected depth.
The program comprised three gems not often performed, two in C minor, and one nominally in C-sharp minor. Spanning three centuries, all three works marked a compositional point of no return, at the same time outward-looking and expressively expansive. And yes, as performed on Sunday by the BCMS and guests, they delivered gripping darkness and deliverance." -https://www.classical-scene.com More Information
