An Idyllic Hour
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
It’s an idyllic first hour. There’s Josef Suk’s “Idyll” for piano, Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll,” Frank Bridge’s “Three Idylls” for orchestra, and Gershwin’s “Idle Dreams”oops, homonymic, but still idle!
Antonin Kubalek plays the Suk, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performs the Wagner, Constantine Orbelian conducts the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in the Bridge, and Gershwin plays himself! Hour two offers pianist Menahem Pressler and the Emerson String Quartet in Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat.
During the last half of the evening, we travel to London. Gavin Sutherland conducts the Royal Ballet Sinfonia in Haydn Wood’s “London Landmarks,” a three-movement suite portraying Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, the gallows’ site of Tower Hill, and The Horse Guards of Whitehall. Another Haydn, this time Franz Joseph, is responsible for the “London Trio” No. 1 in C, arranged and played by the Canadian Guitar Trio. Vaughan William’s Symphony No. 2, “London,” is played appropriately enough by the London Symphony Orchestra under Richard Hickox. And just to see us over and out, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble gives us Jim Parker’s “A Londoner in New York.” Cheers!
Antonin Kubalek plays the Suk, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performs the Wagner, Constantine Orbelian conducts the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in the Bridge, and Gershwin plays himself! Hour two offers pianist Menahem Pressler and the Emerson String Quartet in Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat.
During the last half of the evening, we travel to London. Gavin Sutherland conducts the Royal Ballet Sinfonia in Haydn Wood’s “London Landmarks,” a three-movement suite portraying Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, the gallows’ site of Tower Hill, and The Horse Guards of Whitehall. Another Haydn, this time Franz Joseph, is responsible for the “London Trio” No. 1 in C, arranged and played by the Canadian Guitar Trio. Vaughan William’s Symphony No. 2, “London,” is played appropriately enough by the London Symphony Orchestra under Richard Hickox. And just to see us over and out, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble gives us Jim Parker’s “A Londoner in New York.” Cheers!
