Music Potpourri
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Evening Music brings you a veritable potpourri of good music, from early European Renaissance to late 20th-century Japanese, with many familiar masterpieces in between.
In our first hour, we hear pianist Daniel Adni playing Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces,” Book IX. Jordi Savall and La Capella Reial de Catalunya give us several early-Renaissance anonymous or traditional songs from the court of Alfons V of Arragon; these amazing players espouse the authentic music tradition, using reconstructions of original instruments, and singing in what is believed to be the style current in those ancient days. A magical collection!
Erik Satie’s last work, the ballet “Relache,” is played by Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony. We’ll be diverted by a diversity of good chamber music: Peter Schickele’s Piano Quintet No. 1, Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 played by the Brazilian Guitar Quartet, and Villa-Lobos’s String Quartet No. 12. Twentieth-century Japanese composer Somei Satoh’s “Ruika,” for cello and strings, is an anthem to mourn the soul of the departed that transports us to the meditative world of spirit.
Schoenberg’s Second Chamber Symphony closes our evening; the first movement’s sense of impending doom is brightened considerably by the second and last movement’s dancing con fuoco energy.
In our first hour, we hear pianist Daniel Adni playing Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces,” Book IX. Jordi Savall and La Capella Reial de Catalunya give us several early-Renaissance anonymous or traditional songs from the court of Alfons V of Arragon; these amazing players espouse the authentic music tradition, using reconstructions of original instruments, and singing in what is believed to be the style current in those ancient days. A magical collection!
Erik Satie’s last work, the ballet “Relache,” is played by Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony. We’ll be diverted by a diversity of good chamber music: Peter Schickele’s Piano Quintet No. 1, Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 played by the Brazilian Guitar Quartet, and Villa-Lobos’s String Quartet No. 12. Twentieth-century Japanese composer Somei Satoh’s “Ruika,” for cello and strings, is an anthem to mourn the soul of the departed that transports us to the meditative world of spirit.
Schoenberg’s Second Chamber Symphony closes our evening; the first movement’s sense of impending doom is brightened considerably by the second and last movement’s dancing con fuoco energy.
