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(Rachmaninoff (Aart Klein / www.rachmaninoff.org)
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Lilacs may not be in season, but ‘tis always the season to hear Rachmaninoff. So we begin the evening with his own solo piano performance of his own “Lilacs,” Op. 21/5.
An hour later, or thereabouts, it’s Rachmaninoff again, as we bring you his Piano Concerto No. 2, with Ilana Vered as the featured soloist, Andrew Davis conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra. Pianist Piers Lane brings us Camille Saint-Saens’s difficult second set of etudes for the piano, the Six Etudes, Op. 111, each of which was dedicated to a well-known virtuoso of the day, and which emphasize double-note technique. Listen and marvel!
Ernest Chausson’s String Quartet in C Minor was actually completed by Vincent D’Indy, Chausson having died before completing the third and last movement when his bicycle crashed into a wall in June of 1899. The Chilingirian Quartet does the honors.
Because today is Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s birthday (he was born in 1929), we thought we’d honor him by bringing you a work in which he conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, a work well known and much loved: Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the mighty “Eroica.” And at some point in the evening we’ll bring you soprano Dawn Upshaw, who can be heard live at Carnegie Hall on December 9th, when she performs Lutoslawski’s “Chantefleurs et chantefables” with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under David Zinman. Check it out!
An hour later, or thereabouts, it’s Rachmaninoff again, as we bring you his Piano Concerto No. 2, with Ilana Vered as the featured soloist, Andrew Davis conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra. Pianist Piers Lane brings us Camille Saint-Saens’s difficult second set of etudes for the piano, the Six Etudes, Op. 111, each of which was dedicated to a well-known virtuoso of the day, and which emphasize double-note technique. Listen and marvel!
Ernest Chausson’s String Quartet in C Minor was actually completed by Vincent D’Indy, Chausson having died before completing the third and last movement when his bicycle crashed into a wall in June of 1899. The Chilingirian Quartet does the honors.
Because today is Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s birthday (he was born in 1929), we thought we’d honor him by bringing you a work in which he conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, a work well known and much loved: Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the mighty “Eroica.” And at some point in the evening we’ll bring you soprano Dawn Upshaw, who can be heard live at Carnegie Hall on December 9th, when she performs Lutoslawski’s “Chantefleurs et chantefables” with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under David Zinman. Check it out!
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