Speaking of the Sublime
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata, written first for a young violinist named Bridgetower but later dedicated to a seasoned virtuoso named Kreutzer who refused to play it, nowadays regarded as sublime...
...receives a sublime performance by Nathan Milstein, with Artur Balsam at the piano. Don’t tune in late, or you’ll miss it.
Speaking of the sublime, the Debussy Nocturneswith its evocatively titled movements ‘Nuages,’ ‘Fêtes,’ and ‘Sirènes’receives a heavenly performance from the Cleveland Orchestra under Pierre Boulez.
Homegrown Peter Schickele, the man who single-handedly (or simple-mindedly) rescued P.D.Q. Bach from the dustbin of history and restored him to the comic cosmos, is a serious composer of truly good music, as is proven by “American Dreams,” his First String Quartet, heard this evening performed by the Audubon Quartet.
“Outcome Inevitable” was written in 1992 on commission for the group that performs it, the Relâche Ensemble. Inevitably, a search on the meaning of the titled revealed nothing. But who cares; the music is great!
...receives a sublime performance by Nathan Milstein, with Artur Balsam at the piano. Don’t tune in late, or you’ll miss it.
Speaking of the sublime, the Debussy Nocturneswith its evocatively titled movements ‘Nuages,’ ‘Fêtes,’ and ‘Sirènes’receives a heavenly performance from the Cleveland Orchestra under Pierre Boulez.
Homegrown Peter Schickele, the man who single-handedly (or simple-mindedly) rescued P.D.Q. Bach from the dustbin of history and restored him to the comic cosmos, is a serious composer of truly good music, as is proven by “American Dreams,” his First String Quartet, heard this evening performed by the Audubon Quartet.
“Outcome Inevitable” was written in 1992 on commission for the group that performs it, the Relâche Ensemble. Inevitably, a search on the meaning of the titled revealed nothing. But who cares; the music is great!
