Barber at the Plaza
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
The settings: The Lobby, the Third Floor Hallway, A Corner of the Ballroom, Tea in the Palm Court, A Bedroom Affair, and The Next Afternoon. What’s the music?
In our second hour, you’ll be amused to hear Samuel Barber’s music for the ballet “Souvenirs,” which was orchestrated at the behest of Balanchine, whose scenario was set in the Palm Springs Hotel. Barber’s music, however, was written in affectionate remembrance of childhood visits to New York City’s Plaza Hotel. Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minor will be performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival on August 27th and 28th, but we bring you an outstanding recording with Nikolaus Harnoncourt leading the Concentus Musicus Wien and an extraordinary roster of soloists. You won’t want to miss it.
According to Groves, Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Clarinet Trio is “overtly Brahmsian in form and content, possess a nervous intensity typical of the fin-de-siècle artist and far removed from the objectivity of [its] classical model.” Clarinetist Walter Boeykens, cellist Roel Dieltiens, and pianist Robert Groslot provide us with an impassioned performance.
Other composers featured this evening: Lully, Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Palestrina, Pärt, and Schubert, as well as Arnold Black and Harold Shapero.
In our second hour, you’ll be amused to hear Samuel Barber’s music for the ballet “Souvenirs,” which was orchestrated at the behest of Balanchine, whose scenario was set in the Palm Springs Hotel. Barber’s music, however, was written in affectionate remembrance of childhood visits to New York City’s Plaza Hotel. Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minor will be performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival on August 27th and 28th, but we bring you an outstanding recording with Nikolaus Harnoncourt leading the Concentus Musicus Wien and an extraordinary roster of soloists. You won’t want to miss it.
According to Groves, Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Clarinet Trio is “overtly Brahmsian in form and content, possess a nervous intensity typical of the fin-de-siècle artist and far removed from the objectivity of [its] classical model.” Clarinetist Walter Boeykens, cellist Roel Dieltiens, and pianist Robert Groslot provide us with an impassioned performance.
Other composers featured this evening: Lully, Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Palestrina, Pärt, and Schubert, as well as Arnold Black and Harold Shapero.
