Swept Away
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Tonight, we'll be swept away by the currents of Czech-born Bedrich Smetana's "The Moldau"; George Szell conducts the Cleveland Orchestra. Also on the plate: J.S. Bach's Triple Concerto in A minor with Andrew Parrot and the Boston Early Music Festival.
Sailing on through the periphery of the classical repertoire, guitarist John Williams and the Philharmonia Orchestra serve up Joaquin Rodrigo's "Fantasy for a Gentleman"; followed by a viruoso work for a different set of strings, Ernest Chausson's "Poeme" for violin and orchestra. We'll hear the legendary recording with Jacques Thibaud and the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux under Eugene Bigot.
We'll wrap up the evening with two monuments to German Romanticism as Leif Segerstam and the Norrkoeping Symphony Orchestra bring characteristic aplomb to Max Reger's "Symphonic Prologue for a Tragedy." Also, the young Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor with pianist Murray Perahia; Sir Neville Marriner leads the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
Sailing on through the periphery of the classical repertoire, guitarist John Williams and the Philharmonia Orchestra serve up Joaquin Rodrigo's "Fantasy for a Gentleman"; followed by a viruoso work for a different set of strings, Ernest Chausson's "Poeme" for violin and orchestra. We'll hear the legendary recording with Jacques Thibaud and the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux under Eugene Bigot.
We'll wrap up the evening with two monuments to German Romanticism as Leif Segerstam and the Norrkoeping Symphony Orchestra bring characteristic aplomb to Max Reger's "Symphonic Prologue for a Tragedy." Also, the young Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor with pianist Murray Perahia; Sir Neville Marriner leads the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
