Tune in and Enjoy!
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
If you are a Branford Marsalis fan, you won’t want to miss his brilliant saxophone playing in Milhaud’s “Scaramouche” this evening. Tune in and enjoy!
Named for a Commedia dell’arte boastful buffoon, Milhaud’s “Scaramouche” is a suite for saxophone and orchestra that offers Branford Marsalis ample opportunity to display his virtuosic chops. The Assad brothers, guitarists Sergio and Odair, are both featured in Sergio’s composition, “Gypsy Songs,” along with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg on violin. Then the brothers join forces in Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Concerto for Two Guitars, a beguiling work that puts their talents fully on display. Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Concert No. 3, played by Trevor Pinnock on harpsichord, Rachel Podger on violin, and Jonathan Manson on viola da gamba precedes “Rameau Remembered,” a work for flute and orchestra requested of composer Hugh Aitken by Gerard Schwarz back in 1980; Schwarz leads the Seattle Symphony, while the flutist is Scott Goff. Haydn’s Symphony No. 87 is one of the few “Paris” symphonies without a nickname of its own, but never mind—its ingratiating charm is fully exploited by Tafelmusik under the baton of Jeanne Lamon. Music with a Spanish flavor is on the menu with Turina’s Piano Trio No. 1 and Falla’s Harpsichord Concerto. Olé!
Named for a Commedia dell’arte boastful buffoon, Milhaud’s “Scaramouche” is a suite for saxophone and orchestra that offers Branford Marsalis ample opportunity to display his virtuosic chops. The Assad brothers, guitarists Sergio and Odair, are both featured in Sergio’s composition, “Gypsy Songs,” along with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg on violin. Then the brothers join forces in Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Concerto for Two Guitars, a beguiling work that puts their talents fully on display. Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Concert No. 3, played by Trevor Pinnock on harpsichord, Rachel Podger on violin, and Jonathan Manson on viola da gamba precedes “Rameau Remembered,” a work for flute and orchestra requested of composer Hugh Aitken by Gerard Schwarz back in 1980; Schwarz leads the Seattle Symphony, while the flutist is Scott Goff. Haydn’s Symphony No. 87 is one of the few “Paris” symphonies without a nickname of its own, but never mind—its ingratiating charm is fully exploited by Tafelmusik under the baton of Jeanne Lamon. Music with a Spanish flavor is on the menu with Turina’s Piano Trio No. 1 and Falla’s Harpsichord Concerto. Olé!
