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for harpsichord, viola da gamba and recorders
Performed by The Roentgen Connection
REVIEW: An outstanding trio of Dutch musicians In Medias Tres (Carolina Bater,blockflute,Karin Presshlmayer,viola da gamba, Goska Isfohording) performed a concert (named "X-ray connection") of contemporary and early music on baroque instruments on the 4th of May in ăGuarnerius", Belgrade. Compositions by Bach, Ian Petterson Swelinck and Alfonso Ferabosco faced the pieces of the following contemporary authors: Jo Konda, Paul Frankhauzen, Teo Lovendi, Federiko Reuben, Jasna Velickovic, Juka Tiensu As well as the those of Carolina Bater ,who was present. Early and the presented contemporary music share the anti-romantic stronghold that efficiently connected the two and allowed the ensemble members a real impetus as far as the virtuosity and multi-layeredness of the interpretation is concerned.
It was particularly interesting to perceive the pieces of Federico Reuben (Roainita Amarilla, Termina en el Charco (a piece that had its premiere here)) and Jasna Velickovic .The sonorousness of baroque shockingly stretched throughout the fibers of Reuben's piece was used in one of the rhythmic-pop ensemble mechanism fragments. Skillfully written, this step forward points out the flexible and uncompromising transcending of the boundaries set by former music practices. The composition of Velickovic , previously performed in Belgrade , and now performed by Isfohording revealed its new and "true" face. The piece is an insightful reading of the baroque music codes on the cembalo as seen through a prism of dramatic reexamining by a contemporary musician , the re-examining of his/her role in the compositional techniques (methods) and in the hysterical western post-capitalist society in which he/she forges his/her pieces.
Given the extraordinary interpretations of those diverse musical statements, In Medias Tres presented the Belgrade audience with a chance to re-question and modernize concert programs and the listening experience kindled with pleasure of enjoying the performing act that's intense, dynamic and subversive and that does not flinch from confronting musically distant worlds