By Tom Strini
November 11, 2012
ThirdCoast Digest
The Fine Arts Quartet has in recent years made something of a hobby of Bernard Hermann, best known for hisnerve-racking score for Psycho. Hermann was among the greatest of film composers, but the charms the FAQ finds in his concert music have thus far eluded me.
Sunday, violinists Ralph Evans and Efim Boico, violist Nicolò Eugelmi, cellist Robert Cohen and guest clarinetist Michel Lethiec took up Hermann’s Souvenir de Voyage. The illustrative music suggests a Mediterranean cruise from the French Riviera to the Italian Riviera. The shimmering marine textures of Ravel and Debussy abound in the first two movements. The last opens with what might be a quaint Neapolitan love song played in thirds between the two violins.
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