It’s a four-birthday-cakes evening, so get out a large plate and prepare to feast—on music by Leopold Mozart, Fanny Mendelssohn, Aaron Copland, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel!
Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields play the “Toy Symphony” by Wolfgang Amadeus’s father Leopold—a Cassation that the elder Mozart seems to have arranged from an unidentified composer’s work for toy instruments that actually were playable. It’s lots of fun. Fanny Mendelssohn is represented by her “Songs for Pianoforte,” performed by pianist Elzbieta Sternlicht. Aaron Copland’s ever-popular “El salon Mexico” will stir the blood as offered by the Dallas Symphony under Eduardo Mata. And the last birthday salute is the Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat, Rolf Smedvig as the soloist, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra providing backup under conductor Jahja Ling.
Dvorak’s Piano Quartet No. 2 will feature pianist Emanuel Ax and his friends violinist Isaac Stern, violist Jaime Laredo, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma—what a lineup! Leopold Mozart’s famous son Wolfie is represented by his “Haffner” Symphony (No. 35), George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. And the piece de resistance of the last hour is Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Los Angeles Philharmonic vitalizing the sensuous summer daydreams of the dozing faun.
Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields play the “Toy Symphony” by Wolfgang Amadeus’s father Leopold—a Cassation that the elder Mozart seems to have arranged from an unidentified composer’s work for toy instruments that actually were playable. It’s lots of fun. Fanny Mendelssohn is represented by her “Songs for Pianoforte,” performed by pianist Elzbieta Sternlicht. Aaron Copland’s ever-popular “El salon Mexico” will stir the blood as offered by the Dallas Symphony under Eduardo Mata. And the last birthday salute is the Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat, Rolf Smedvig as the soloist, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra providing backup under conductor Jahja Ling.
Dvorak’s Piano Quartet No. 2 will feature pianist Emanuel Ax and his friends violinist Isaac Stern, violist Jaime Laredo, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma—what a lineup! Leopold Mozart’s famous son Wolfie is represented by his “Haffner” Symphony (No. 35), George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. And the piece de resistance of the last hour is Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Los Angeles Philharmonic vitalizing the sensuous summer daydreams of the dozing faun.
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