“Welcome to my living room.” With those words, Timo Andres introduced an 80-minute concert streamed by the Phillips Collection Sunday afternoon. Rather than coming to the museum’s music room, the American pianist and violinist Rachel Lee Priday recorded their program of American music in New York.
…Priday was more assertive with Three Suns, a virtuosic solo etude that Andres composed for her in 2018. Double-stops and arpeggios patterns piled up in repetitive loops, which the violinist dispatched effortlessly.
…Priday relished the chance to luxuriate in her instrument’s silken melodic power even more in the elegiac sections of Aaron Copland’s Violin Sonata. … Priday, skillfully assisted by Andres, knew exactly what to do with what the score had given her.