Schubert Performed on Guitar
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Franz Schubert never wrote music for the guitar, despite his fondness for playing the instrument. But we’re going to enjoy Schubert performed on the guitar this evening, anyway!
The arpeggione, for which Schubert wrote his Sonata in D Minor, D. 821, was a six-stringed fretted instrument that was held between the knees and played with a bow. The work is most often played these days by cellists or violists, but guitarist John Williams brings us an arrangement for guitar and string orchestra, since guitar doesn’t sound all that great with a piano as the “other” instrument.
The Mostly Mozart Festival begins on July 28th, but we anticipate it by a week as we bring you Mozart’s final symphony, the “Jupiter” (No. 41 in C). Riccardo Muti conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. The nickname first appeared in print for a 1819 performance in Edinburgh, and Mozart’s son Franz Xaver seems to have stated that it was the London impresario Johann Peter Salomon who first called it that, after the most powerful of the Roman gods.
Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote his First “Bachianas brasileiras” for an ensemble of cellos; this evening we enjoy an arrangement by Sergio Abreu for the four members of the Brazilian Guitar Quartet.
The arpeggione, for which Schubert wrote his Sonata in D Minor, D. 821, was a six-stringed fretted instrument that was held between the knees and played with a bow. The work is most often played these days by cellists or violists, but guitarist John Williams brings us an arrangement for guitar and string orchestra, since guitar doesn’t sound all that great with a piano as the “other” instrument.
The Mostly Mozart Festival begins on July 28th, but we anticipate it by a week as we bring you Mozart’s final symphony, the “Jupiter” (No. 41 in C). Riccardo Muti conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. The nickname first appeared in print for a 1819 performance in Edinburgh, and Mozart’s son Franz Xaver seems to have stated that it was the London impresario Johann Peter Salomon who first called it that, after the most powerful of the Roman gods.
Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote his First “Bachianas brasileiras” for an ensemble of cellos; this evening we enjoy an arrangement by Sergio Abreu for the four members of the Brazilian Guitar Quartet.
