Review: Aura Petrov at Music Island
Article by Enniv Zarf
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Music Island is always one of my favorite Classical Venues in Second Life. Kate Miranda, a great friend of mine runs the venue on the island and have brought to SL some of the most amazing performers from all backgrounds and levels.
Today’s concert featured the violinist Aura Petrov.
It is great to see that in Second Life, we embrace musicians of all levels and backgrounds who just love to share their music. It is always exciting to hear new voices and new people come in and show us what they love and share with us music in their own accord. In the end, we are all growing and that’s what counts!
Program:
Air On a G String – J.S. Bach
Minuet In G – L.V. Beethoven
Traumerei – R. Schumann
Seranade – R. Schubert
Cavatine OP.85, No 3 – J. Raff
Minauet Divertimento, Kv. 334 – W. A. Mozart
Berceuse – B. Godard
Humoreske – A. Dvorak
Hungarian Dance No 5. – J.S. Brahms
I believe in honesty and there’s no reason to hide anything or mask what we thought. It doesn’t help anyone and it certainly doesn’t help music. Well Aura Petrov is not a virtuoso. Her program today included many works that I have learned myself as a teenager studying the violin. They were performed well as I would expect on the level of a descent intermediate/advance student of the instrument.
But there is nothing wrong with this. Everyone is at a different level and we should all be supportive of the arts and in Second Life, this is a great platform for those who are joining in the world of music and performance to get a chance to do so and get the experience necessary to keep growing.
I can hear her love for the music as she performed the works. And she definitely did show us a set of repertoire that many other established artists may not ever touch. But she did have definitely intonation problems aside from her technical issue of the balance between her and her CD player accompaniment. There were also some steadiness of rhythm that could be bettered but then that could also just be the stream messing with the performance. Finally I would say that the tone quality of the instrument can use a little bit more ironing out to get that beautiful singing tone on some of the slower pieces especially.
In the end, it is a sweet set of music that I do love. I have a fond admiration for the Schumann, Dvorak and Brahms of this set. They do stir up a lot of my childhood memories and love. The biggest problem with today’s performance was the lag in the stream. I am not sure where the problem actually came from, but it made it extremely difficult to enjoy much of the music since parts of it were literally missing and skipped over. I hope Aura Petrov will get a chance to resolve this problem for her future performances.
Finally, the concert ended 40 minutes after the hour which is shorter then the usual hour long concerts at Music Island. I hope Aura continues to work on her craft and presents us with her next program down the road.
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