Fauré's Pelléas et Mélisande
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Our first hour features Fauré’s suite derived from his incidental music to Maeterlinck’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” in a performance by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Armin Jordan.
Honoring the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s “An American Tragedy” at the Metropolitan Opera (which occurred this last Friday), we bring you a piano work of his titled “When soft voices die,” Ursula Oppens, for whom the work was written, interpreting this emotional take on Shelley’s “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” This is no soft, perfumed music, however, but a loud and wildly virtuosic piece.
Stay tuned for our final offering, Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in Minor, the legendary Alfred Wallenstein leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Honoring the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s “An American Tragedy” at the Metropolitan Opera (which occurred this last Friday), we bring you a piano work of his titled “When soft voices die,” Ursula Oppens, for whom the work was written, interpreting this emotional take on Shelley’s “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” This is no soft, perfumed music, however, but a loud and wildly virtuosic piece.
Stay tuned for our final offering, Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in Minor, the legendary Alfred Wallenstein leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
