Chamber Music, Spanish Style
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Our evening tonight begins with some pleasant forays into a Spanish-infused chamber music program, including an arrangement for two guitars of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" Overture played by Duo Tedesco. Bach's "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 6 with Jerzy Maksymiuk
leading the Polish Chamber Orchestra brings our first hour to a royal resolution.
For our second hour, we witness two distinct approaches to composition during times pervaded by cultural turmoil. Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy perform Debussy's Cello Sonata in D minor, an ironically playful and exuberant piece written against the backdrop of World War I. Also, Sir Georg Solti conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a work from the same tumultuous period, Bela Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin" suite.
Horst Göbel and members of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic lead us into uncharted territory with the Octet for Piano, Winds, and Strings by Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, considered by Schumann to be "the romanticist of the classical period." Rimsky-Korsakov's exotically symphonic "Scheherazade" brings our final hour to a close with majestic fanfare.
For our second hour, we witness two distinct approaches to composition during times pervaded by cultural turmoil. Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy perform Debussy's Cello Sonata in D minor, an ironically playful and exuberant piece written against the backdrop of World War I. Also, Sir Georg Solti conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a work from the same tumultuous period, Bela Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin" suite.
Horst Göbel and members of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic lead us into uncharted territory with the Octet for Piano, Winds, and Strings by Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, considered by Schumann to be "the romanticist of the classical period." Rimsky-Korsakov's exotically symphonic "Scheherazade" brings our final hour to a close with majestic fanfare.
