Christmas Concertos
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Christmas concertos are the order of the evening, with the Collegium Aureum performing Francesco Manfredini’s in our first hour and the more familiar one by Archangelo Corelli in hour two.
Substantial selections from three major masters of music composition, Beethoven, Haydn, and Mendelssohn, share the spotlight. The Smetana Quartet brings us Beethoven’s First String Quartet; the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble offers Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat; and Richard Hickox leads the Collegium Musicum 90 in Haydn’s “London” Symphony No. 104.
Other delightful works include Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella” Suite, played by Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and programmed for the amusement of our music librarian’s 9-month-old kitten by that name.
Substantial selections from three major masters of music composition, Beethoven, Haydn, and Mendelssohn, share the spotlight. The Smetana Quartet brings us Beethoven’s First String Quartet; the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble offers Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat; and Richard Hickox leads the Collegium Musicum 90 in Haydn’s “London” Symphony No. 104.
Other delightful works include Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella” Suite, played by Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and programmed for the amusement of our music librarian’s 9-month-old kitten by that name.
