Strings and Threads
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Tonight we'll hear the "Strings and Threads" suite from violinist/composer Mark O'Connor, a stylistic travelogue that takes us through centuries of folk music for the fiddle.
We'll start our second hour with a bang as William Boughton leads the Philharmonia Orchestra in the overture to Smetena's "The Bartered Bride"; the energy continues through Mozart's Violin Sonata No. 18 (with Henryk Szering and Ingrid Haebler)and Berlioz's "Royal Hunt and Storm" from his opera "Les Troyens" (James Levine and the Berlin Philharmonic).
Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields set a more placid tone in our third hour with Bach's Second Orchestral Suite; then it's a mini Samuel Barber fest as Jon Kimura Parker takes up Barber's wonderful Piano Concerto, followed by a special treat: Leontyne Price sings Barber's song "The Daisies" — accompanied by the composer himself.
We'll start our second hour with a bang as William Boughton leads the Philharmonia Orchestra in the overture to Smetena's "The Bartered Bride"; the energy continues through Mozart's Violin Sonata No. 18 (with Henryk Szering and Ingrid Haebler)and Berlioz's "Royal Hunt and Storm" from his opera "Les Troyens" (James Levine and the Berlin Philharmonic).
Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields set a more placid tone in our third hour with Bach's Second Orchestral Suite; then it's a mini Samuel Barber fest as Jon Kimura Parker takes up Barber's wonderful Piano Concerto, followed by a special treat: Leontyne Price sings Barber's song "The Daisies" — accompanied by the composer himself.
