It's Transcription Time
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
It’s transcription time as we hear a keyboard work played on banjo and double bass, a flute sonata played on euphonium, and a piano sonata played on an 8-string guitar.
Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer join forces on banjo and double bass respectively for Bach’s Three-part invention No. 10; Mark Fisher plays the euphonium (essentially a tenor tuba) in Bach’s Flute Sonata in E-flat; and Paul Galbraith plucks his 8-string guitar as he performs Haydn’s Piano Sonata No. 31. It’s always interesting to hear familiar works in unfamiliar guises.
Bizet’s wrote two symphonies in C Major, but the second was only published posthumously, and is today known as the “Roma.” We hear the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra play the first, a work written in 1855 when Bizet was only seventeen, but one that already looked forward to the lyricism and energy of his operas.
The Sixth Symphony of Antonin Dvorák is his first to feature the Czech furiant. The furiant is a dance in which the triple time is heavily syncopated, making it excellent material for a Scherzo. Listen for this irresistible third movement as Libor Pesek conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer join forces on banjo and double bass respectively for Bach’s Three-part invention No. 10; Mark Fisher plays the euphonium (essentially a tenor tuba) in Bach’s Flute Sonata in E-flat; and Paul Galbraith plucks his 8-string guitar as he performs Haydn’s Piano Sonata No. 31. It’s always interesting to hear familiar works in unfamiliar guises.
Bizet’s wrote two symphonies in C Major, but the second was only published posthumously, and is today known as the “Roma.” We hear the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra play the first, a work written in 1855 when Bizet was only seventeen, but one that already looked forward to the lyricism and energy of his operas.
The Sixth Symphony of Antonin Dvorák is his first to feature the Czech furiant. The furiant is a dance in which the triple time is heavily syncopated, making it excellent material for a Scherzo. Listen for this irresistible third movement as Libor Pesek conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
