Cellist Tsutsumi evokes passionate mourning
[...] Memorial to Martin Luther King was given its first Toronto Symphony
performance in Massey Hall last night, with Victor Feldbrill conducting and
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi as soloist.
In this expressive work, [...] Morawetz turns the
cello into a very specific kind of mourner.
[...]
The cello part falls gratefully on the ear and in Tsutsumi's powerful hands
it achieved moments of passionate lyricism last night, as well as alternating
moments of elegaic reverie, often accompanied by the most economical or
orchestral punctuation.
[...]
