Get Out Your Castanets
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Check out the 2005 New York Flamenco Festival, in full force with happenings all over town. Go enjoy, or get out your castanets and play along as you listen to us this evening.
We open with music from our first birthday honoree, Mendelssohn (1809). Pianist Andras Schiff plays his “Spring Song,” William Boughton conducts the English String Orchestra in this String Symphony No. 6, and Lang Lang is the soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 1, Barenboim leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The Canadian Guitar Trio brings you a couple of Brazilian dance tunes before we tip our hat to the Flamenco Festival. The “Misa flamenca” was composed by one of the foremost practitioners and exponents of flamenco in our time, Paco Peña. He is joined in this recording by several other guitarists, flamenco singers, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus under the baton of Laszlo Heltay.
After our film music interlude, we hear Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw in the Overture and Bacchanale from Wagner’s “Tannhäuser.” Chailly begins a two-week appearance with the New York Philharmonic on February 10th. In our last hour, another birthday celebration, this time for Luigi Dallapiccola (1904) we hear his neo-Baroque “Tartiniana” after a sonata by the work’s namesake, Tartini. Ruth Posselt is the violinist for the Dallapiccola, her fleet fingers supported by Bernstein and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
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We open with music from our first birthday honoree, Mendelssohn (1809). Pianist Andras Schiff plays his “Spring Song,” William Boughton conducts the English String Orchestra in this String Symphony No. 6, and Lang Lang is the soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 1, Barenboim leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The Canadian Guitar Trio brings you a couple of Brazilian dance tunes before we tip our hat to the Flamenco Festival. The “Misa flamenca” was composed by one of the foremost practitioners and exponents of flamenco in our time, Paco Peña. He is joined in this recording by several other guitarists, flamenco singers, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus under the baton of Laszlo Heltay.
After our film music interlude, we hear Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw in the Overture and Bacchanale from Wagner’s “Tannhäuser.” Chailly begins a two-week appearance with the New York Philharmonic on February 10th. In our last hour, another birthday celebration, this time for Luigi Dallapiccola (1904) we hear his neo-Baroque “Tartiniana” after a sonata by the work’s namesake, Tartini. Ruth Posselt is the violinist for the Dallapiccola, her fleet fingers supported by Bernstein and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
» View today's selected reading from "The Writer's Almanac"
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