There’s something to please everyone this evening, from Handel and Haydn to Mozart and Mahler. We’ve even got Bach back to back with Bach (J.S. and P.D.Q. that is!).
You’ve heard of the “Flight of the Bumblebee;” now try the “Zig-Zag Sonata.” Marcia Hadjimarkos opens our evening on the clavichord with Haydn’s “Piano Sonata no. 56 in D,” one of the most complex (and Beethoven-esque) of Haydn’s works for solo piano. Andrew Manze leads the Academy of Ancient Music in an authoritative rendition of Handel’s “Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F,” and Murray Perahia essays Mozart’s 16th Piano Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra.
We’ll also hear a poignant version of some of the last music ever written by that master symphonist, Gustav Mahler, as Klaus Tennstedt leads the London Philharmonic in the first (and only completed) movement of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony.
Finally, in an interesting little twist, we’ve got Bach back to back with Bach. Pieter Wispelwey treats us to Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Cello Suite no. 6 in D”, while a different Peter (Shickele, that is – a.k.a. “P.D.Q. Bach”) tickles the ivories with the Lark Quartet as they perform his “Piano Quintet no. 2.”
You’ve heard of the “Flight of the Bumblebee;” now try the “Zig-Zag Sonata.” Marcia Hadjimarkos opens our evening on the clavichord with Haydn’s “Piano Sonata no. 56 in D,” one of the most complex (and Beethoven-esque) of Haydn’s works for solo piano. Andrew Manze leads the Academy of Ancient Music in an authoritative rendition of Handel’s “Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F,” and Murray Perahia essays Mozart’s 16th Piano Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra.
We’ll also hear a poignant version of some of the last music ever written by that master symphonist, Gustav Mahler, as Klaus Tennstedt leads the London Philharmonic in the first (and only completed) movement of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony.
Finally, in an interesting little twist, we’ve got Bach back to back with Bach. Pieter Wispelwey treats us to Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Cello Suite no. 6 in D”, while a different Peter (Shickele, that is – a.k.a. “P.D.Q. Bach”) tickles the ivories with the Lark Quartet as they perform his “Piano Quintet no. 2.”
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