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Critic's Choice: Art, Theatre, and Music The Detroit News / Friday, March 24, 2006 Success is overflowing for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, and so is its bounty of intimate concerts for devotees of music writ small. You could say the whole happy tale of major league chamber music under the society's aegis resonates in the recital Saturday night by the venerable pianist Richard Goode. He appears on the Chamber Music Society's "other" series, its overflow season called Opus 3. This is the second year for Opus 3, a series of three programs launched in response to the perennial near-sellouts of the society's main series of nine concerts. But by no means is the second series secondary. The virtuoso Goode has built a reputation as an imaginative classicist -- one whose playing eloquently points up the stylistic bridge that links the music of the 18th and 19th centuries. To hear Goode play "romantic" pieces is to get a proper sense of their roots in the era we tend too narrowly to think of as "classical." This season, Carnegie Hall in New York invited Goode to present a sequence of eight programs in its Perspectives series. Which brings us to the intriguing scheme of his program for Saturday night. The first half is devoted to Bach -- the Partitas in G and E minor and two Preludes from "The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II." Then, it's on to Schubert and the grand Sonata No. 17 in D. Connections? Well, chances are you'll come away with a fresh perspective on both composers. 8 p.m. Saturday, Seligman Performing Arts Center at Detroit Country Day School, 22305 W. 13 Mile, Beverly Hills. Tickets: $38-$75. Call (248) 855-6070. -- Lawrence B. Johnson © Copyright 2006 The Detroit News. All rights reserved. |
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