H Rules the Hour I, from Holborne to Haydn to Hummel
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
An Anthony Holborne Lullaby starts us off, but soon we hear Haydn's Violin Concerto No. 4, performed by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with Elizabeth Wallfisch conducting and fiddling in the starring role simultaneously. The Wanderer Trio is joined by violist Christophe Gaugue and bassist Stephane Logerot for Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s Piano Quintet in E-flat Minor.
Not often heard is Morton Gould's "Spirituals for String Choir and Orchestra," played this evening from a broadcast recording by the Boston Symphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos. Gould says that the five movements, with self-explanatory titles (Proclamation, Sermon, A Little Bit of Sin, Protest, and Jublilee), are meant to display a wide gamut of specifically American emotions, with the strings used as if they were a vocal choir.
In our final hour, we find finds David Golub at the piano, ably assisted by the London Symphony under Wyn Morris, as they bring us the ever-famous and highly beloved Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2.
Not often heard is Morton Gould's "Spirituals for String Choir and Orchestra," played this evening from a broadcast recording by the Boston Symphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos. Gould says that the five movements, with self-explanatory titles (Proclamation, Sermon, A Little Bit of Sin, Protest, and Jublilee), are meant to display a wide gamut of specifically American emotions, with the strings used as if they were a vocal choir.
In our final hour, we find finds David Golub at the piano, ably assisted by the London Symphony under Wyn Morris, as they bring us the ever-famous and highly beloved Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2.
