All We Like Sheep
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Sergei Prokofiev’s “Classical” Symphony, his first, is one of his most popular works, and with good reason. It’s impossible not to smile at this good-natured neo-Classical exercise.
James Levine conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and you can bet they were grinning from ear to ear as he coaxed this lively performance from them!
Anthony Robson is the featured oboe soloist in Johann Christian Bach’s Concerto in F for that instrument, while Anthony Halstead conducts the Hanover Band. We also hear the English Concert perform his Quintet in C. Johann Sebastian’s youngest, who was born this day in 1735, moved to London in his early thirties, and stayed there composing, teaching, and performing till his death at the age of just forty-six.
One of the most beautiful of all Franz Schubert’s hundreds of beautiful works must surely be “The Shepherd on the Rock,” performed for us this evening by soprano Barbara Hendricks, clarinetist Sabine Meyer, and pianist Radu Lupu, an extraordinary roster of stars if ever there was one! Speaking of shepherds, Yehudi Menuhin leads his flock, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, in Handel’s “The Faithful Shepherd” Suite.
James Levine conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and you can bet they were grinning from ear to ear as he coaxed this lively performance from them!
Anthony Robson is the featured oboe soloist in Johann Christian Bach’s Concerto in F for that instrument, while Anthony Halstead conducts the Hanover Band. We also hear the English Concert perform his Quintet in C. Johann Sebastian’s youngest, who was born this day in 1735, moved to London in his early thirties, and stayed there composing, teaching, and performing till his death at the age of just forty-six.
One of the most beautiful of all Franz Schubert’s hundreds of beautiful works must surely be “The Shepherd on the Rock,” performed for us this evening by soprano Barbara Hendricks, clarinetist Sabine Meyer, and pianist Radu Lupu, an extraordinary roster of stars if ever there was one! Speaking of shepherds, Yehudi Menuhin leads his flock, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, in Handel’s “The Faithful Shepherd” Suite.
