Come on, Spring!
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Spring seems to be lagging behind, so we'll give it a little musical motivation tonight with some spring-themed works from around the world.
We'll set the stage in our first hour with Claude Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"; Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Then it's the more direct approach with Joseph Haydn's "Song of Joy" from "The Seasons" (Spring, of course!). Pianist Eva Knardahl shakes it up with Edvard Grieg's "Spring Dance" while Sergio and Odair Assad add some spice with Piazolla's "Spring in Buenos Aires" (vacation, anyone?).
Later on we'll have plenty of music just for music's sake, including Johannes Brahms's Clarinet Trio in A Minor (featuring Benny Goodman) and an early Piano Sonata by Beethoven, No. 4 in E-flat, in an elegant performance from John O'Conor.
We'll set the stage in our first hour with Claude Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"; Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Then it's the more direct approach with Joseph Haydn's "Song of Joy" from "The Seasons" (Spring, of course!). Pianist Eva Knardahl shakes it up with Edvard Grieg's "Spring Dance" while Sergio and Odair Assad add some spice with Piazolla's "Spring in Buenos Aires" (vacation, anyone?).
Later on we'll have plenty of music just for music's sake, including Johannes Brahms's Clarinet Trio in A Minor (featuring Benny Goodman) and an early Piano Sonata by Beethoven, No. 4 in E-flat, in an elegant performance from John O'Conor.
