By Cecelia Porter
BETHESDA, Md. (Washington Post) — The Strathmore Mansion on Thursday was chock full of patrons (including cellists and other string players) to hear the 23-year-old Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan give a phenomenal account of some musical thrillers by Cesar Franck, Frederic Chopin, Dmitri Shostakovich and Mstislav Rostropovich. Franck’s late Sonata in A, the evening’s opener, and Shostakovich’s Sonata in D minor, Opus 40, call on every dimension of a performer’s technique and expressive means.
