Boisterous Bouree? Playful Pizzicato?
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Here are some of the best movement designations going: 'Boisterous bouree,' 'Playful pizzicato,' 'Sentimental saraband,' and ‘Frolicsome finale.' What's the work? Here's a hint: it's simple...
Give up? Okay. It’s Benjamin Britten’s “Simple Symphony,” his neo-Classical salute to the Baroque tradition, written when he was only twenty. It’s brought to us this evening by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which you can hear live at Carnegie Hall on February 8th, playing all kinds of wonderful works! Maurice Andre and his trumpet star in Andre Jolivet’s Trumpet Concerto No. 2, Jolivet himself conducting the Orchestre de Concerts Lamoreux.
In our second hour, Peter Westermann is the soloist in C. P. E. Bach’s Oboe Concerto in E-flat. This concerto exists in a version for piano as well, but C. P. E.’s own comments make it probable that the oboe version had priority in his mind. Westermann is ably supported by the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra, which you can enjoy at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday afternoon, February 6th. Before our evening ends, Claudio Abbado leads the forces of the Vienna Philharmonic in the third of the Beethoven “Leonore” Overtures.
Give up? Okay. It’s Benjamin Britten’s “Simple Symphony,” his neo-Classical salute to the Baroque tradition, written when he was only twenty. It’s brought to us this evening by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which you can hear live at Carnegie Hall on February 8th, playing all kinds of wonderful works! Maurice Andre and his trumpet star in Andre Jolivet’s Trumpet Concerto No. 2, Jolivet himself conducting the Orchestre de Concerts Lamoreux.
In our second hour, Peter Westermann is the soloist in C. P. E. Bach’s Oboe Concerto in E-flat. This concerto exists in a version for piano as well, but C. P. E.’s own comments make it probable that the oboe version had priority in his mind. Westermann is ably supported by the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra, which you can enjoy at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday afternoon, February 6th. Before our evening ends, Claudio Abbado leads the forces of the Vienna Philharmonic in the third of the Beethoven “Leonore” Overtures.
