{"id":14433,"date":"2013-08-12T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T03:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=14433"},"modified":"2013-08-13T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:06:10","slug":"concert-review-euphonia-finds-right-mix-and-balance-at-lula-lounge-concert-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/08\/12\/concert-review-euphonia-finds-right-mix-and-balance-at-lula-lounge-concert-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert review: Euphonia finds right mix and balance at Lula Lounge concert series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Euphonia violinist Tanya Charles was also a soloist at Lula Lounge on Monday night (John Terauds phone photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Founding music director Simon Capet has over the course of the past few months created a fine chamber orchestra from scratch in Euphonia, which delivered its best concert yet on Monday night at Lula Lounge.<\/p>\n

The 14 musicians and their conductor filled the club with the sounds of the classical era as they offered up a late-18th century programme featuring the music of Giovanni Paisiello, Antonio Salieri, Mozart and Joseph Haydn.<\/p>\n

The Paisiello piece was his overture to The Barber of Seville<\/em> — popular before Rossini got his paws on the libretto more than a generation later. Salieri and Haydn contributed symphonies and Mozart his early Violin Concerto No. 4<\/em> in D Major, K218, with Euphonia member Tanya Charles as soloist.<\/p>\n

Capet laid down his baton to let Charles lead the ensemble during the Mozart work, describing it as the ultimate trust test for an orchestra. Capet likened Charles’s playing with a conductorless backup group to an acting student being certain that they will be caught when falling backwards with eyes closed.<\/p>\n

The result from the other musicians was a bit timid, but Charles was on fire. Her playing was colourful and bold — and she contributed her own cadenzas in the second and third movements with a clear sense of humour.<\/p>\n

Her enthusiasm must’ve been contagious, because when the group returned to the Lula Lounge dancefloor for the Salieri and Haydn symphonies after a break, the ensemble was tight and focused — finally delivering a fine, professional sound worthy of a good chamber orchestra.<\/p>\n

(Having Salieri and Haydn’s music performed side by side was also an object lesson in why history venerates some composers and casts others aside.)<\/p>\n

As has been the case for every other Euphonia concert, the club was full, with people from all demographic backgrounds enjoying food and drink along with the orchestra — and as has usually been the case at that venue, the performance garnered respectful silence despite Capet’s assurances that it would be fine to sip, eat and tweet mid-music.<\/p>\n

Capet has been choosing the group’s repertoire wisely, allowing him to demonstrate how having one instrument per part can be just as effective and beautiful as the multiples in a full-size symphony orchestra. The smaller group as well as the proximity between audience and musicians has also given each concert a special intimacy.<\/p>\n

And now the musical chemistry is there, too. It bodes well for the group’s future.<\/p>\n

John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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