Strolling Through the Sonorities
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
We begin tonight's stroll through sonorities with Maurice Ravel's hymn to 18th century French music, "Le tombeau de Couperin" — Paul Paray leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Next, Jordi Savall serves up a selection from the Baroque master himself with Couperin's "La chemise blanche."
Hopefully our feet can keep up the pace as we jump into Morton Gould's inventive "Tap Dance Concerto" with tap dancer Lane Alexander (Paul Freeman leads the Czech National Symphony Orchestra). Our third hour comes to a poignant finale with Frederick Delius's Violin Sonata No. 1; its final movement alludes to Europe ravaged by the first World War.
We continue in a somber vein as Sir Simon Rattle leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem. Finally, the clouds pass though as we enjoy the strains of Jean-Philippe Rameau's playful Suite from "Dardanus" with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan.
Hopefully our feet can keep up the pace as we jump into Morton Gould's inventive "Tap Dance Concerto" with tap dancer Lane Alexander (Paul Freeman leads the Czech National Symphony Orchestra). Our third hour comes to a poignant finale with Frederick Delius's Violin Sonata No. 1; its final movement alludes to Europe ravaged by the first World War.
We continue in a somber vein as Sir Simon Rattle leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem. Finally, the clouds pass though as we enjoy the strains of Jean-Philippe Rameau's playful Suite from "Dardanus" with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan.
