{"id":7068,"date":"2023-03-22T17:09:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2023-03-22T17:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T17:09:37","slug":"francesca-dego-and-alessio-bax-wigmore-hall-20th-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=7068","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Dego and Alessio Bax, Wigmore Hall – 20th March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FrancescaLike most Mozart works, the Violin Sonata in B flat K454<\/em> sounds effortlessly simple but is, of course, anything but. Here Italian violinist, Francesca Dego and pianist Alessio Bax (also Italian) delivered it like a conversation full of engaging musical dialogue.<\/p>\n

She plays with a smile and sets pleasingly dramatic contrasts between the dotted leggiero passages and playfully grandiloquent chords in the opening movement and her tone is admirably mellow. Together they find delicate warmth in the gentle 6|8 andante. And Dego plays \u2013 almost sings – the Allegretto as a light-as-air quasi dance while Bax (further from the audience) ripples and ripostes behind her. The effect is both charming and impressive.<\/p>\n

Then we nipped forward a hundred years in time to the rich romance of Brahms: his Violin Sonata No I in G op 78<\/em> which dates from 1878\/9. Dego makes the opening Largo \u2013 Vivace sound almost sultry in the powerful fortissimo passages. Then in the andante \u2013 connected with the death of Brahms\u2019s godson Felix Schumann \u2013 Bax delivered the soulful piano statement at the start with appropriate poignancy which Dego amplified later in her well played double stopped section. The performance finished with a colourful account of the Allegro molto moderato.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s good to see and hear two relatively young musicians performing together with such intelligent cohesion. The lunchtime Wigmore Hall audience \u2013 usual mix of enthusiastic retirees, local business people enjoying a musical midday break and music students and teachers \u2013 was enthralled, as I hope Radio 3 listeners were at home.<\/p>\n

Susan Elkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like most Mozart works, the Violin Sonata in B flat K454 sounds effortlessly simple but is, of course, anything but. Here Italian violinist, Francesca Dego and pianist Alessio Bax (also Italian) delivered it like a conversation full of engaging musical … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7072,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions\/7072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}