Folk Fest

Evening Music | May 6, 2010

We hear differing interpretations of English folk songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, and Ernest Tomlinson in Evening Music's first hour, and several present-day Finnish composers set our feet tapping with modern takes on Finnish folk material at evening's end. In between? Mikhail Pletnev's artistry illuminates the Beethoven "Appassionata" Sonata; the remarkable Rachel Podger plays Vivaldi's Violin Concerto, RV 347; and the Orpheus String Quartet gives us Ravel's beautiful Quartet in F, about which Debussy is supposed to have said: "In the name of God, I implore you not to change a note of your quartet."
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