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Maria Dueñas’s New York Recital Debut Was Spectacular
It’s probably the last time the violinist won’t perform in a big room.
About 250 lucky listeners packed into Weill Hall last night to hear the 22-year-old violinist Maria Dueñas give her New York recital debut, and by the time she had played the first few notes, it was clear she had already outgrown the venue. In a way, she has: Two years ago (an eon in the life of such a young musician), she performed Ortiz’s violin concerto Altar de Cuerda, and the affinity between them suggests one of the great composer-performer partnerships, like Rostropovich and Shostakovich. Listening up close like that, you can also make out Dueñas’s staggering range of colors: the burnished sunset orange of Franck’s wistful melody, the lavender pallor of a high pianissimo, or a sustained note hanging like a thread of midnight blue.
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