A Mozart Quintet
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Mozart’s Quintet in E-flat, K. 452, is the first work ever written for piano and wind choir. In fact, of all major composers, only he and Beethoven wrote for such a group. Though he had no model for such a grouping, this is one of Mozart’s most superbly lovely ensemble works. We hear pianist Carol Rosenberger joined by oboist Allan Vogel, clarinetist David Shifrin, bassoonist Kenneth Munday, and hornist Robin Graham.
Frederick Rzewski describes his "De Profundis" as a “30-minute composition for piano solo, in which the pianist recites a text consisting of selected passages adapted from Oscar Wilde’s letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, written during the author’s imprisonment for ‘gross indecency’ in Reading Gaol. The piece could be described as a melodramatic oratorio, in which eight sections with text are preceded by eight instrumental preludes.”
Rzewski himself, whose birthday it is (1938), gives this evening’s remarkable performance.
Frederick Rzewski describes his "De Profundis" as a “30-minute composition for piano solo, in which the pianist recites a text consisting of selected passages adapted from Oscar Wilde’s letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, written during the author’s imprisonment for ‘gross indecency’ in Reading Gaol. The piece could be described as a melodramatic oratorio, in which eight sections with text are preceded by eight instrumental preludes.”
Rzewski himself, whose birthday it is (1938), gives this evening’s remarkable performance.
