MOZART ON THE WATER: BARGEMUSIC PRESENTS MARK PESKANOV

By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM

The violinist Mark Peskanov, artistic director of Bargemusic, will perform a program that includes Mozart and Sarasate. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times

To visitors at the floating concert hall on the East River under the Brooklyn Bridge, Mark Peskanov is a familiar sight. He has steered a steady course as the artistic director of Bargemusic, balancing adventurous new music and family-friendly classics. But he is also a violinist of formidable technical and persuasive powers, as his recital on Saturday, July 29, will attest.

For this program, with Doris Stevenson at the piano, Mr. Peskanov draws an arc from the crystalline simplicity of Mozart to Sarasate’s fiery “Carmen Fantasy,” traversing works by Paganini, Piazzolla, Stravinsky and others that show composers steeped in, or flirting with, Hispanic musical traditions. (bargemusic.org)

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