For the Lute?
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Were the Bach Suites for Lute really for lute? No one knows for sure, and since some of them can’t even be performed on that instrument without transcription...
Tonight, Sharon Isbin play Bach’s Lute Suite No. 1 in a performing version edited by Rosalyn Tureck and fingered by Isbin. This is one of the works that does not lie naturally for the lute, but nevertheless sounds wonderful on it and on the modern guitar, as you will hear. Sharon can be heard live, by the way, sharing the stage with other excellent artists at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday, February 13th. “Mladi” (Youth), a suite for wind sextet written when Leo Janácek was seventy, constantly changes in mood and color, evoking the rapidly shifting emotions of a man looking back at his younger days with nostalgia but without sentimentality. We hear members of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in this evening’s performance.
Our second hour features Christian Zacharias on the piano in Beethovens Third Concerto for that instrument, Hans Vonk conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden. Another delight is Samuel Barber’s “Essay for Orchestra,” essayed this evening by the New York Phil under Thomas Schippers.
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Tonight, Sharon Isbin play Bach’s Lute Suite No. 1 in a performing version edited by Rosalyn Tureck and fingered by Isbin. This is one of the works that does not lie naturally for the lute, but nevertheless sounds wonderful on it and on the modern guitar, as you will hear. Sharon can be heard live, by the way, sharing the stage with other excellent artists at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday, February 13th. “Mladi” (Youth), a suite for wind sextet written when Leo Janácek was seventy, constantly changes in mood and color, evoking the rapidly shifting emotions of a man looking back at his younger days with nostalgia but without sentimentality. We hear members of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in this evening’s performance.
Our second hour features Christian Zacharias on the piano in Beethovens Third Concerto for that instrument, Hans Vonk conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden. Another delight is Samuel Barber’s “Essay for Orchestra,” essayed this evening by the New York Phil under Thomas Schippers.
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