Richard Goode Plays Mozart
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Richard Goode joins the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on October 18th in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9. This evening on WNYC, following BBC/WNYC Music Party, they play No. 19. Stay tuned.
According to composer Alexander Knaifel, “Lux aeterna” is like a new requiem...built upon fragments from various psalms.” St. Basil the Great called psalmody an “occupation of angels.” Demenga wrote this work for the two cellists, Patrick and Thomas Demenga, whose wonderful artistry reminded him of St. Basil’s citation.
Ernest Bloch wrote his 1925 Concerto grosso No. 1 for strings and piano obbligato as a one-man reaction against the burgeoning atonal movement in music. Partially neo-Classical and neo-Baroque, it pays homage to earlier music practices in a most delightful way, as demonstrated by tonight’s performance by pianist Patricia Michaelian and the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz.
According to composer Alexander Knaifel, “Lux aeterna” is like a new requiem...built upon fragments from various psalms.” St. Basil the Great called psalmody an “occupation of angels.” Demenga wrote this work for the two cellists, Patrick and Thomas Demenga, whose wonderful artistry reminded him of St. Basil’s citation.
Ernest Bloch wrote his 1925 Concerto grosso No. 1 for strings and piano obbligato as a one-man reaction against the burgeoning atonal movement in music. Partially neo-Classical and neo-Baroque, it pays homage to earlier music practices in a most delightful way, as demonstrated by tonight’s performance by pianist Patricia Michaelian and the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz.
