Spain, via guitar and piano
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
We're having a Spanish-inflected third hour, with guitar and piano music from sunny Spain. Sharon Isbin plays guitar works by Albeniz and Albreu, while Alicia de Larrocha plays piano works by Granados. Olé!
In our second hour, a very short couple of minutes of Schubert as Claudio Arrau plays the third of his Moments musicaux, op. 94, are followed by his substantial Symphony No. 5 as Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
We mustn't forget to tell you that Darius Milhaud's jazz-inflected 1923 take on the "Creation du monde" (a ballet score that set incensed critics of the time aflame) is performed by Hugh Wolff's band, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in hour one. In the end is our beginning, so to say...
In our second hour, a very short couple of minutes of Schubert as Claudio Arrau plays the third of his Moments musicaux, op. 94, are followed by his substantial Symphony No. 5 as Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
We mustn't forget to tell you that Darius Milhaud's jazz-inflected 1923 take on the "Creation du monde" (a ballet score that set incensed critics of the time aflame) is performed by Hugh Wolff's band, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in hour one. In the end is our beginning, so to say...
