[...]
The interpretive high point of the program? A performance of
Oskar Morawetz's Quartet No. 5.
In a sense, Kobayashi and company proceeded from Haydn to Morawetz
via Mozart, since the first eight measures of the Lachrymosa of
Mozart's unfinished Requiem constitute the opening of the
Toronto composer's piece.
Subtitled Tribute to W.A. Mozart, Morawetz's piece essentially
offers a sombre meditation on some of Mozart's final musical ideas [...]
