Anything But Plain
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz was always a colorful character; when he was seven, he blew an unprecedented chance to get into the Paris Conservatoire — when he accidentally tossed a ball through a plate glass window. Tonight we'll hear one of his seminal piano works, the (equally) colorful suite for piano, "La Vega" (The Plain).
Flights of fancy fill the later hours, with Britten's early "Phantasy" Quartet and Tchaikovsky's "Fantasy Overture" from "Romeo and Juliette." Continuing the theme is Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony with Alan Hovhaness's "Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints," preceded by Geminiani's "Enchanted Forest." Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera's ballet "Estancia" brings the evening to a close.
Flights of fancy fill the later hours, with Britten's early "Phantasy" Quartet and Tchaikovsky's "Fantasy Overture" from "Romeo and Juliette." Continuing the theme is Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony with Alan Hovhaness's "Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints," preceded by Geminiani's "Enchanted Forest." Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera's ballet "Estancia" brings the evening to a close.
