Adolphus Hailstork
Virtuosic Vivaldi
by Stephen Martorella
July 3, 2022
Violinist Chad Hoopes with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra wowed
Friday’s opening night time viewers of Newport Classical Music Competition.
In
the opulent splendor and sumptuous acoustics of the Breakers Nice
Corridor, overlooking the ocean, the Grammy Award successful conductorless
ensemble delivered with virtuosity, precision, and joie de vivre on a
sonic palette wealthy and vibrant. A look on the program steered a bow
to the Baroque, however the realization supplied interpretations,
strategies, preparations, and stylings that have been at occasions lush and
romantic, and elsewhere fairly novel, trendy, even jazzy.
…
The gamers acknowledged the 81-year-old American composer Adolphus Hailstork
along with his 1992 Sonata da Chiesa, a piece of reverent lyric and tonal
writing, a lot of it in counterpoint. The orchestra made use of textures
on this work through the use of three ranges of orchestras, recalling Ralph
Vaughan Williams’s three orchestras for the Fantasia on a Theme of
Thomas Tallis, pitting a solo group in opposition to a mid-layer of first desk
gamers, with the complete complement for the thickest and richest sections.
Motion titles Exaltation, O Nice Thriller, Adoration, Jubiliation, O
Lamb of God, Grant Us Thy Peace, Exaltation—appeared within the printed
essay, however not on the title web page. Orpheus’s sensitivity and
expressivity, left us with a serene sense of peace and marvel, ending on
a word of quiet pleasure.
