Quiet City
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Aaron Copland's "Quiet City" casts a trumpet soloist in the part of observer over a large (and deceptively serene) metropolis at night. Originally written for a play that never made it to Broadway, it's since become a concert favorite of orchestras (not to mention trumpet players) around the world. Richard Hickox leads the City of London Sinfonia with trumpet soloist Crispian Steele-Perkins.
A bit earlier on, however, we'll enjoy a symphony from Papa Haydn: No. 51 in B-flat; Adam Fischer and the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra perform the honors. We'll also visit the French Baroque repertoire via the Second Suite in B Minor by Louis Antoine Dornel (from his Suites for Transverse Flute, published in 1711).
In our last hour we'll serve up a substantial symphonic treat via Sir Andrew Litton and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3 in A Minor. Rachmaninoff (who died on this date in 1943) infused the work with feelings of sadness over the fact that he could never go home again after fleeing the Revolution in 1917. "One place is closed to me," he wrote, "and that is my own country — Russia."
A bit earlier on, however, we'll enjoy a symphony from Papa Haydn: No. 51 in B-flat; Adam Fischer and the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra perform the honors. We'll also visit the French Baroque repertoire via the Second Suite in B Minor by Louis Antoine Dornel (from his Suites for Transverse Flute, published in 1711).
In our last hour we'll serve up a substantial symphonic treat via Sir Andrew Litton and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3 in A Minor. Rachmaninoff (who died on this date in 1943) infused the work with feelings of sadness over the fact that he could never go home again after fleeing the Revolution in 1917. "One place is closed to me," he wrote, "and that is my own country — Russia."
