This evening’s most unusual offering: “Chant of The Celestial Lake” (really a flute concerto), by Estonian Peeter Vahi, evoking a journey into a mysterious oriental landscape of the soul.
Three works by jazz pianist Bill Evans, who was born this day in 1929, are brought to life as Jean-Ives Thibaudet. Russian rule our second hour, as Jeffrey Campbell solos in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Piano Concerto in C-sharp Minor, and Christopher O’Riley gives us three movements from Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” transcribed for piano. East and West, soundscapes both archaic and civilized, merge in “Chant of The Celestial Lake,” a flute concerto by Peeter Vahi, composed for the soloist Maarika Jarvi, sister of the conductor, Kristjan.
Charles Burney wrote regarding the Haydn symphonies performed in London in 1795: “...of what Apollo and the Muses compose or perform we can only judge by such productions as these” The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays the earliest, No. 102, which looks forward to Beethoven and beyond. Lukas Ligeti, son of Gyorgy, is responsible for “Delta Space, ” a work commissioned for pianist Kathleen Supové and played on the Disklavier, which can be controlled by computer; the pianist and the computer fight over the same keyboard, and soon sampled African sounds join the mix. Unusual, and unusually interesting! Papa Ligeti’s Sonata for solo cello is then offered by Matt Haimovitz, and we bring our evening to a close.
Three works by jazz pianist Bill Evans, who was born this day in 1929, are brought to life as Jean-Ives Thibaudet. Russian rule our second hour, as Jeffrey Campbell solos in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Piano Concerto in C-sharp Minor, and Christopher O’Riley gives us three movements from Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” transcribed for piano. East and West, soundscapes both archaic and civilized, merge in “Chant of The Celestial Lake,” a flute concerto by Peeter Vahi, composed for the soloist Maarika Jarvi, sister of the conductor, Kristjan.
Charles Burney wrote regarding the Haydn symphonies performed in London in 1795: “...of what Apollo and the Muses compose or perform we can only judge by such productions as these” The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays the earliest, No. 102, which looks forward to Beethoven and beyond. Lukas Ligeti, son of Gyorgy, is responsible for “Delta Space, ” a work commissioned for pianist Kathleen Supové and played on the Disklavier, which can be controlled by computer; the pianist and the computer fight over the same keyboard, and soon sampled African sounds join the mix. Unusual, and unusually interesting! Papa Ligeti’s Sonata for solo cello is then offered by Matt Haimovitz, and we bring our evening to a close.
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