Hymn and Fuguing Tunes
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
What is “something slow followed by something fast”? That’s how Henry Cowell described the two-part form of his 18 “Hymn and Fuguing Tunes.” We’ll hear one this evening.
Hailed as “America’s leading oboe recitalist” by the The New York Times, Humbert Lucarelli is the featured soloist in Henry Cowell’s “Hymn and Fuguing Tune” No. 10. Rachel Podger, who will be featured on Saturday and Sunday afternoons at the “Mostly Mozart Festival,” is the violinist in this evening’s performance of the Bach Violin Sonata No. 3.
After a nod to English folk music by way of Percy Grainger and Ralph Vaughan Williams, we’ll turn our attention to the venerable Beethoven, as we hear Andras Schiff illuminate the Piano Concerto No. 2 (which was actually written before No. 1). Astor Piazzolla himself joins the Kronos Quartet in “Five Tango Sensations,” a work the Kronos commissioned.
Shostakovich loved the movies, and one of his first jobs was as a piano player in a silent-movie house. He went on to compose many fine film scores, as well as more “serious” music. Tonight we’ll hear the last one he ever wrote, the incidental music to “King Lear.” Music spanning five centuriesfrom the two Js, Josquin des Pres and John Cagerounds out our show.
Hailed as “America’s leading oboe recitalist” by the The New York Times, Humbert Lucarelli is the featured soloist in Henry Cowell’s “Hymn and Fuguing Tune” No. 10. Rachel Podger, who will be featured on Saturday and Sunday afternoons at the “Mostly Mozart Festival,” is the violinist in this evening’s performance of the Bach Violin Sonata No. 3.
After a nod to English folk music by way of Percy Grainger and Ralph Vaughan Williams, we’ll turn our attention to the venerable Beethoven, as we hear Andras Schiff illuminate the Piano Concerto No. 2 (which was actually written before No. 1). Astor Piazzolla himself joins the Kronos Quartet in “Five Tango Sensations,” a work the Kronos commissioned.
Shostakovich loved the movies, and one of his first jobs was as a piano player in a silent-movie house. He went on to compose many fine film scores, as well as more “serious” music. Tonight we’ll hear the last one he ever wrote, the incidental music to “King Lear.” Music spanning five centuriesfrom the two Js, Josquin des Pres and John Cagerounds out our show.
