Chamber Verdi
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Giuseppe Verdi's traditional image could not be further removed from the chamber music repertoire, and yet during an illness-laden production of Aida, the opera maestro decided to while away the hours by composing his String Quartet in E minor. We will hear Dimitri Mitropoulus's string orchestra arrangement of this playful piece with Andre Previn leading the Berlin Philharmonic.
Tonight's music also includes Dennis Russell Davies conducting the American Composers Orchestra in Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 2. Entitled "Mysterious Mountain," this American composer of Armenian heritage imagined this work as a tribute to the "whole idea of mountains" and perhaps larger themes of sublimity, awe, and conquest.
Tonight's music also includes Dennis Russell Davies conducting the American Composers Orchestra in Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 2. Entitled "Mysterious Mountain," this American composer of Armenian heritage imagined this work as a tribute to the "whole idea of mountains" and perhaps larger themes of sublimity, awe, and conquest.
