The Lark Ascending
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
One of Vaughan Williams’s loveliest works, “The Lark Ascending,” will enliven our evening as Nigel Kennedy’s violin songfully soars above the City of Birmingham Symphony under Sir Simon Rattle.
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes can be heard at Carnegie’s Isaac Stern Auditorium and Zankel Hall starting on May 4th, joined by a number of performers to for promising musical evenings. Check out Carnegie Hall’s website. WNYC listeners can hear him play some of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces early this evening.
Vadim Repin is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, in an idiomatically Russian performance with the Kirov Orchestra under Valery Gergiev.
Those wanting to explore less-well-traveled repertoire should stay tuned for Virgil Thomson’s 1932 String Quartet, which Tim Page describes as “a limpid, peaceful work in four movements that prefigures minimalism in its stasis and deserves a much wider audience than it has so far received.” Another somewhat obscure work that deserves a wider audience is the “Tres versiones sinfonicas” by Julian Orbon, a Spanish composer who emigrated to Cuba. The three movements explore different musical historical models: I is a pavanne a la 16th century Spain; II, a “Conductus” of the medieval variety; and III , “Xylophone,” explores Afro-Caribbean sounds.
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes can be heard at Carnegie’s Isaac Stern Auditorium and Zankel Hall starting on May 4th, joined by a number of performers to for promising musical evenings. Check out Carnegie Hall’s website. WNYC listeners can hear him play some of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces early this evening.
Vadim Repin is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, in an idiomatically Russian performance with the Kirov Orchestra under Valery Gergiev.
Those wanting to explore less-well-traveled repertoire should stay tuned for Virgil Thomson’s 1932 String Quartet, which Tim Page describes as “a limpid, peaceful work in four movements that prefigures minimalism in its stasis and deserves a much wider audience than it has so far received.” Another somewhat obscure work that deserves a wider audience is the “Tres versiones sinfonicas” by Julian Orbon, a Spanish composer who emigrated to Cuba. The three movements explore different musical historical models: I is a pavanne a la 16th century Spain; II, a “Conductus” of the medieval variety; and III , “Xylophone,” explores Afro-Caribbean sounds.
