Curtis Chamber Orchestra is hitting the road with its customary vigor and intelligence, though its program - performed Monday at the Kimmel Center, subsequently in Washington and New York - was a this-and-that calling card perhaps aimed more at establishing the Curtis Institute identity than at making a cohesive artistic statement.
The exterior conceit in this concert, presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, was a musical meeting ground between two starry Curtis graduates from different generations, violinists Jennifer Koh (2002) and Jaime Laredo (1959), the latter having taught the former.
The likely starting point was Bach's Concerto in D minor for two violins, which revealed their contrasting tone quality (hers darker and husky, his lighter, more treble), but in performance had only a general connection with the music's idiom and content.
