South America Tour: Peru and Columbia
As part of the Trio’s 20th Anniversary celebration, the group toured for the first time to South America, with critically acclaimed concerts in Lima, Peru and Bogotá, Columbia. The glowing reviews speak for themselves!
TRIO POULENC: An Engaging and Sensual Experience
By Javier Monroy Cervantes, Caretas Magazine Peru
Review of the third concert of the subscription season by the Philharmonic Society of Lima.
(View the original article in Spanish)
An engaging, magical, sensual, and definitive experience. There is no other way to summarize the performance last Tuesday by the renowned American trio POULENC, in the third date of the Subscription Season of the prestigious Philharmonic Society of Lima, held at the auditorium of Colegio Santa Úrsula.
The program included the Baroque piece by Georg Friedrich Händel, "Trio Sonata in F major." It was followed by Mijail Glinka's "Trio Pathétique in D minor." Next came Dmitri Shostakovich's "Romance Op. 97a. A spin around Moscow." Then, the trio delighted the audience with a work by the French composer from whom they take their name: Francis Poulenc, with "Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano," followed by "Selected Songs," an arrangement by D. Zöllner and Trio Poulenc, "Le chemins de l'amour," and "Toreador." The formal program concluded with the evocative and mirage-like composition by Gioachino Rossini: Fantasia on "The Italian Girl in Algiers." However, the group treated the audience to an extra piece from the soundtrack of the film "Modern Times," by filmmaker and composer Charles Chaplin. A musical palette that spans three centuries.
The Poulenc Trio performs in Lima, Peru; Aleh Remezau, oboe, Irina Kaplan Lande, piano, Bryan Young, bassoon
The members of the ensemble, Irina Kaplan Lande on piano, Bryan Young on bassoon, and Aleh Remezau on oboe, managed to captivate the Lima audience with an effective combination of resources: the perfect selection of classical and contemporary pieces, the harmonious balance of melodies, and the unforgettable inter-dimensional dialogue that always played with the contrasts and diverse colors of the instruments.
The accessibility of each of these compositions, especially Haendel's (as it is often said, not completely closed instrumentation) and its dialoguing and fluid profile revealed in each expressive line, made them suitable for a high-performance interpretive experience, where the natural quality and virtuosity of the American trio shone brightly.
The Poulenc Trio poses with Peruvian music students following the concert.
The confluence between the creative genius transpiring in each score and the elegance and grandeur with which they were performed offered an intense concert with a unique aesthetic, completely inclusive, shining in its variations, and sensual and intimate in certain passages.
In summary, an unforgettable and celebratory day showcasing the precision and good taste of the Philharmonic Society of Lima, which continues to present concerts of indisputable interest by selecting true chamber and contemporary music celebrities who immediately connect with the refined sensitivity and well-founded expectations of the demanding Lima audience. Well done, SFL. We look forward to even more.