Souvenir de Florence
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Our tour guide this evening is Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as we travel to Italy via his "Souvenir de Florence."
Our first hour is steered by Franz Schubert, however, as Richard Hickox and the London Sinfonietta take us through Schubert's Symphony No. 3 in D; then it's off to Florence with Tchaikovsky's sunny and delightful chamber work for strings, "Souvenir de Florence" (Souvenir of Florence); we'll hear an all-star ensemble led by violinist Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg.
Later on, a couple of notables: Camille Saint-Seans' Symphony in A with the Tapiola Sinfonietta, and Aaron Copland's marvelously descriptive "Old American Songs" (Set 1) with stalwart Baritone Sherrill Milnes and the Cincinnatti Pops conducted by Erich Kunzel.
We'll also enjoy another piece that deals in Americana (more specifically, right here). The New York Philharmonic joins forces with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (under conductors Kurt Masur and Wynton Marsalis) to bring us Duke Ellington's orchestral essay with a Jazz bent, "A Tone Parallel to Harlem."
Our first hour is steered by Franz Schubert, however, as Richard Hickox and the London Sinfonietta take us through Schubert's Symphony No. 3 in D; then it's off to Florence with Tchaikovsky's sunny and delightful chamber work for strings, "Souvenir de Florence" (Souvenir of Florence); we'll hear an all-star ensemble led by violinist Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg.
Later on, a couple of notables: Camille Saint-Seans' Symphony in A with the Tapiola Sinfonietta, and Aaron Copland's marvelously descriptive "Old American Songs" (Set 1) with stalwart Baritone Sherrill Milnes and the Cincinnatti Pops conducted by Erich Kunzel.
We'll also enjoy another piece that deals in Americana (more specifically, right here). The New York Philharmonic joins forces with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (under conductors Kurt Masur and Wynton Marsalis) to bring us Duke Ellington's orchestral essay with a Jazz bent, "A Tone Parallel to Harlem."
