Pressing Need
Through-going TECS fans, many
of whom had departed by intermission,
do want, I believe, at least
one piece of "old fashioned" chamber
music when such groups as the
Aeolian Players appear. Granted, it
seems to be the expressed intention
of this group to perform "modern"
music, and one can't quibble with
that intention as there is a pressing
need for performances of new music.
But, just as one expects at least
one piece of modern music, one
expects to hear at least one seventeenth,
eighteenth or early nineteenth
century work too. It is not
all the same.
Technically, it must have been
nearly perfect as the Aeolian is first
and foremost a highly professional
group of musicians. Audibly, it was
a trial without jury. One may have
to wait for the I Solisti Veneti for
just deserts.
