Turkish Delight
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
If you have some Turkish Delight in your pantry, this evening would be a good time to serve it, maybe along with fresh-brewed Turkish coffee...
While you are preparing that delightful Turkish desert, listen to Maria João Pires, who is famous as a Mozart interpreter, play his Piano Sonata No. 110. Then take a seat and feast while we bring you—if not genuine Turkish music, at least music with a Turkish flavor: Süssmayer’s “Sinfonia turchesca,” performed by the Concerto Köln and the Turkish ensemble Sarband; Sérgio Assad’s “Istanbul”: ‘Awakening and Turkish Dance,’ played by Sérgio and his brother Odair on guitars, along with violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg; and Dave Brubeck’s “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” a work Brubeck wrote after hearing a street band in Istanbul.
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg returns to play Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto in our second hour, along with the London Symphony under Maxim Shostakovich. After some film music, we return to our food theme. Martinu’s “La revue de cuisine” is given a rousing performance by a six-member chamber group, and the “March Past of the Kitchen Utensils” from Vaughan Williams’s incidental music to Aristophanes’ “The Wasps” is humorously rendered by the London Philharmonic under Sir Adrian Boult.
John Adams’s first commission while serving a residency with the San Francisco Symphony was his 1980–81 work using poetry of John Donne and Emily Dickinson, “Harmonium.” Robert Shaw conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
We wind down with “Eighteen Courtly Masquing Ayres” by John Adson, David Munrow playing recorder, supported by other early-instrument specialists.
While you are preparing that delightful Turkish desert, listen to Maria João Pires, who is famous as a Mozart interpreter, play his Piano Sonata No. 110. Then take a seat and feast while we bring you—if not genuine Turkish music, at least music with a Turkish flavor: Süssmayer’s “Sinfonia turchesca,” performed by the Concerto Köln and the Turkish ensemble Sarband; Sérgio Assad’s “Istanbul”: ‘Awakening and Turkish Dance,’ played by Sérgio and his brother Odair on guitars, along with violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg; and Dave Brubeck’s “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” a work Brubeck wrote after hearing a street band in Istanbul.
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg returns to play Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto in our second hour, along with the London Symphony under Maxim Shostakovich. After some film music, we return to our food theme. Martinu’s “La revue de cuisine” is given a rousing performance by a six-member chamber group, and the “March Past of the Kitchen Utensils” from Vaughan Williams’s incidental music to Aristophanes’ “The Wasps” is humorously rendered by the London Philharmonic under Sir Adrian Boult.
John Adams’s first commission while serving a residency with the San Francisco Symphony was his 1980–81 work using poetry of John Donne and Emily Dickinson, “Harmonium.” Robert Shaw conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
We wind down with “Eighteen Courtly Masquing Ayres” by John Adson, David Munrow playing recorder, supported by other early-instrument specialists.
