REVIEW: Sleek playing from Bronfman, brass and string quartet
Special to the Aspen Times Yefim Bronfman coaxed an ear-caressing range of tone from the Steinway grand piano on the stage of the Benedict Music Tent Tuesday evening. He applied breathtakingly precise technique to find expressive details in works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and the iconoclastic Soviet-era composer Galina Ustvolskaya. Miraculously, it all came through indelibly in the spacious expanses of the tent, a space hardly ideal for solo piano music. Bronfman always is all business, so it’s not surprising that he conquered both the music and the space. He does not gaze into the eth...
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