Clarinata
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman starts us off this evening, supported by Irma Vallecillo on piano, as he plays Dick Hyman’s wittily titled and witty sounding “Clarinata.”
More from Richard a bit later, as he joins the Tokyo String Quartet to bring us Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Quintet. Harpist Lily Laskine, flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, and the Pascal Quartet perform Maurice Ravel’s exquisite “Introduction and Allegro,” before we hear Jacqueline Du Pre perform the solo honors in Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor, a work written in only two weeks of 1850, during one of the composer’s most productive and happiest periods. Ottorina Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome” gush forth in splendor through the inspired playing of the Montreal Symphony under Charles Dutoit.
If Bach’s secular cantata BWV 214, “Sound, ye drums and trumpets!” sound to you a lot like his “Christmas Oratorio,” there’s good reason: a great deal of this music, originally composed for the 1733 birthday of the Electress of Saxony and Queen of Poland, was adopted in 1734 for the BWV 248 oratorio. You aren’t dreaming. Ton Koopman leads the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir in a spirited performance.
More from Richard a bit later, as he joins the Tokyo String Quartet to bring us Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Quintet. Harpist Lily Laskine, flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, and the Pascal Quartet perform Maurice Ravel’s exquisite “Introduction and Allegro,” before we hear Jacqueline Du Pre perform the solo honors in Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor, a work written in only two weeks of 1850, during one of the composer’s most productive and happiest periods. Ottorina Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome” gush forth in splendor through the inspired playing of the Montreal Symphony under Charles Dutoit.
If Bach’s secular cantata BWV 214, “Sound, ye drums and trumpets!” sound to you a lot like his “Christmas Oratorio,” there’s good reason: a great deal of this music, originally composed for the 1733 birthday of the Electress of Saxony and Queen of Poland, was adopted in 1734 for the BWV 248 oratorio. You aren’t dreaming. Ton Koopman leads the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir in a spirited performance.
