A Dave Brubeck Offering
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Dave Brubeck says he had to watch a film of the already choreographed ballet of “Glances” over and over till the moves were firmly embedded in his brain.
John Salmon is the solo pianist for the Brubeck work, whose four movements are entitled “Overture,” “Struttin’,” “Blue Aria”, and “Doing the Charleston.” A most-lively first hour offering! A 1967 set of musicians from the Marlboro Festival bring us Brahms String Sextet No. 2 at the top of our second hour. A current and different group, Musicians from Marlboro, plays the same work at the Metropolitan Museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium on December 17th. Check out the website, if you are interested.
Cellist Stephen Isserlis is the soloist in Richard Strauss’s “Romanze” in F, Lorin Maazel conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is then joined by pianist Stephen Hough in a masterful performance of Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata in G Minor. This acclaimed international artist can be heard live on December 16th at Carnegie Hall, where he will be joined by equally distinguished friends for three Dvorak string chamber works.
According to Mark Richardson, Johann Johannsson’s “Virdulegu forsetar” was first performed in a large cathedral in Reykjavik, with players on all sides of the audience; slightly underinflated helium balloons fell extremely slowly into the crowd over the course of the piece. Imagine this as you listen to Guthni Franzson conduct the Caput Ensemble in Part IV.
John Salmon is the solo pianist for the Brubeck work, whose four movements are entitled “Overture,” “Struttin’,” “Blue Aria”, and “Doing the Charleston.” A most-lively first hour offering! A 1967 set of musicians from the Marlboro Festival bring us Brahms String Sextet No. 2 at the top of our second hour. A current and different group, Musicians from Marlboro, plays the same work at the Metropolitan Museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium on December 17th. Check out the website, if you are interested.
Cellist Stephen Isserlis is the soloist in Richard Strauss’s “Romanze” in F, Lorin Maazel conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is then joined by pianist Stephen Hough in a masterful performance of Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata in G Minor. This acclaimed international artist can be heard live on December 16th at Carnegie Hall, where he will be joined by equally distinguished friends for three Dvorak string chamber works.
According to Mark Richardson, Johann Johannsson’s “Virdulegu forsetar” was first performed in a large cathedral in Reykjavik, with players on all sides of the audience; slightly underinflated helium balloons fell extremely slowly into the crowd over the course of the piece. Imagine this as you listen to Guthni Franzson conduct the Caput Ensemble in Part IV.
