18 Terrace Review — Wednesday, November 12, 1986 Concert season promising TERRACE — Most pro- fessional musicans would probably prefer playing in a chamber ensemble to any other performing assignmert A career as a soloist is something of a lonesome existence, and member- ship in an orchestra has too much anonymity for anyone with ambition, but a chamber group seems to balance the whole of the music with the sum of individual playing in a conclusivly satisfactory manner. Chamber music, simply stated, is a real treat for both the audience and the performers. by Michael Kelly The Guildhall Strings, a group of eleven young virtuosi from Britain’s Guildhall School, em- bodied everything that’s enjoyable about cham- ber music in their recent performance at the REM Lee Theatre. The group, consisting of six violins, two violas, two cellos and a double-bass, presented a program with an overt bias toward English com- posers for a small but ap- preciative audience. The opening music was Henry Purcell’s dark and gripping Chaconne in G minor, given a treat- ment that stressed sen- sitivity and clarity rather than the marching in- evitably the piece tends to attract. It was follow- ed by two excerpts from Sir William Walton’s film score for ‘‘Henry V'’, a passacaglia and song dominated by that curiously English blend- ing of grief and nostalgia, After one of Mozart’s divertimenti, the first half of the pro- gram concluded with the St. Paul’s Suite by Gustav Holst, a set of four English folk dances performed with the sort of enthusiasm that made the impulse to get up and dance in the aisles dif- ficult to repress. In the eras prior to the advent of electronic home entertainment, the playing of chamber music was one of the most popular ways of passing time at home in the evening. Families often formed consorts of players, and during the Baroque and Classical music periods there was an almost insatiable de- mand for chamber pieces; publishers also encouraged this sort of production, preferring to print sheet music that sold in terms of hun- dreds or thousands of copies rather than or- chestral works with a market of perhaps a few dozen buyers. Despite his short life and pro- digious output, Mozart’s music somehow never sounds hastily assembled and his chamber works never sound like hack- like. The Guildhall group’s performance of his Divertimento in D provided a sunny and direct contrast to the English pieces in the first half of the program. The post-intermission program began with two aquarelles by Frederick Delius, impressionist pieces played with engag- ing reflectiveness. The concert concluded with the lengthy seven- movement Serenade in C by Tchaikovsky in a per- formance that highlighted a subtlety and inventiveness not often apparent in the compuser’s larger or- chestral works. Throughout the con- cert the Guildhall Strings’ overt enjoyment of what they were doing was as entertaining as the music itself, Continually glancing and smiling at one another, the group appeared constantly on the verge of breaking in- to laughter, a condition Chaconne. They seemed to be the sort of people one would like to invite home and party with all night. After two curtain calls, leader Robert continued on page 23 bordering on the inap- propriate during Purcell’s funereal Fine Dining in quiet surroundings! 5:00 p.m. — 10:00 p.m. 4620 LAKELSE AVE. 638-8141 — —— Specializing in Chinese ( Cuisine and Canadian \ Dishes 5 4806 Grelg Ave. _ Terrace, B.C. 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