Masonic Mozart
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Much speculation hovers around Mozart's Violin Sonata in E-flat, due to its association with the clandestine gatherings of Vienna's Masonic lodges. Daniel Barenboim and Itzhak Perlman perform the honors during our first hour tonight, in this simple (yet secretive) work couched in musical symbolism.
Then it's off to France with pianist Jean-Bernard Pommier in Debussy's "Estampes"; we'll also hear an early work by Georges Bizet, his Symphony No. 1 in C Major. Eduardo Mata conducts the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada in this popular work by the then 17-year old composer.
Fans of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto will not fail to hear his imprint on the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Max Bruch, an enchanting work played tonight by Gil Shaham and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Giuseppe Sinopoli. Our evening concludes with a return to those mind-boggling child prodigies as we hear cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han in their rendition of a young Richard Strauss's Cello Sonata.
Then it's off to France with pianist Jean-Bernard Pommier in Debussy's "Estampes"; we'll also hear an early work by Georges Bizet, his Symphony No. 1 in C Major. Eduardo Mata conducts the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada in this popular work by the then 17-year old composer.
Fans of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto will not fail to hear his imprint on the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Max Bruch, an enchanting work played tonight by Gil Shaham and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Giuseppe Sinopoli. Our evening concludes with a return to those mind-boggling child prodigies as we hear cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han in their rendition of a young Richard Strauss's Cello Sonata.
