Featuring Eliot Fisk
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Eliot Fisk is being featured at four Carnegie Neighborhood concerts from June 9–12. Let us whet your appetite for these live appearances with a recorded performance...
Early in the evening, Philadelphia-born but world-renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk will perform a Balletto by Girolamo Frescobaldi, playing his own transcription. Johannes Brahms composed two “Variations on a Theme by Haydn” in 1873, one for piano, and the one we hear this evening, for orchestra. This work was so successful, and so strengthened Brahms’s self-confidence that he finally turned again to the symphony and went on to complete his first by 1876. George Szell, who was born this day in 1897, conducts the Cleveland Symphony.
Claudio Abbado has become one of the most respected of Beethoven conductors, and we hear his view of that most well known of all Ludwig’s symphonies, No. 5, as he coaxes magic from the members of the Vienna Philharmonic.
Eugene Ormandy is at the helm of the Philadelphia Orchestra as we hear John Vincent’s Symphony in D, subtitled “A Festival Piece in One Movement.” It was created in 1954 for the Louisville Orchestra, but revised in 1956 at the request of Ormandy, who then pronounced it “one of the finest compositions created by an American composer in the past decade.”
Early in the evening, Philadelphia-born but world-renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk will perform a Balletto by Girolamo Frescobaldi, playing his own transcription. Johannes Brahms composed two “Variations on a Theme by Haydn” in 1873, one for piano, and the one we hear this evening, for orchestra. This work was so successful, and so strengthened Brahms’s self-confidence that he finally turned again to the symphony and went on to complete his first by 1876. George Szell, who was born this day in 1897, conducts the Cleveland Symphony.
Claudio Abbado has become one of the most respected of Beethoven conductors, and we hear his view of that most well known of all Ludwig’s symphonies, No. 5, as he coaxes magic from the members of the Vienna Philharmonic.
Eugene Ormandy is at the helm of the Philadelphia Orchestra as we hear John Vincent’s Symphony in D, subtitled “A Festival Piece in One Movement.” It was created in 1954 for the Louisville Orchestra, but revised in 1956 at the request of Ormandy, who then pronounced it “one of the finest compositions created by an American composer in the past decade.”
