Summary
NEXT year's Perth Festival of the Arts will have a new concert hall to play with, but this year's event identified a new out-of- town chamber music venue in the beautiful chapel of St Mary's up on Kinnoull Hill. To continue the theme of our coverage of the Schubert Ensemble's residency, however, it was another home with acoustic difficulties to go with its charm. Over the course of an excellent programme, the skills of all members of the group could be heard, but rarely all at once.
The difficulties were evident from the opening single piano quartet movement written by Mahler during his student days in Vienna, when William Howard's boomy and indistinct piano more or less obliterated the strings. Only Tim Boulton's full-toned viola was robust enough to cut through, but even that was lost in the recital's concluding Schumann Quartet in E f lat major, when the balance dealt most cruelly with Jane Salmon's cello.See the full content of this document
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Schubert Ensemble, St Mary's Monastery 3/5
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