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(Piano duo Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams
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While Conlon Nancarrow wrote his complex Studies for the player piano, we are going to hear some of them performed by two miraculous piano players instead.
Although of Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerti grossi, the one known as the “Christmas Concerto” is the most famous, the one we hear tonight, Op. 6/5 in B-flat, also makes for rewarding listening. Corelli was a violinist who endlessly practiced as he sought to perfect his technique, and his composition reflects his expectation of equally high performance levels from those playing his works. We get that high level from tonight’s players, I Solisti Veneti under Claudio Scimone.
More remarkable playing comes from the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, which performs three of Conlon Nancarrow’s harrowingly difficult Studies for Player Piano. Nancarrow turned to the player piano because on it he could work out layer after layer of complicated tempos, rhythms, and meters that would likely defeat any owner of the conventional ten fingers. Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams have twenty fingers between them, and negotiate these difficult studies with panache. Their playing will both amuse and amaze you.
The evening also includes Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 6, Mozart’s “Lodron"” Concerto for Three Pianos and Orchestra, and the lush tone poem, “Don Juan,” by that master of the tone poem, Richard Strauss.
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Although of Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerti grossi, the one known as the “Christmas Concerto” is the most famous, the one we hear tonight, Op. 6/5 in B-flat, also makes for rewarding listening. Corelli was a violinist who endlessly practiced as he sought to perfect his technique, and his composition reflects his expectation of equally high performance levels from those playing his works. We get that high level from tonight’s players, I Solisti Veneti under Claudio Scimone.
More remarkable playing comes from the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, which performs three of Conlon Nancarrow’s harrowingly difficult Studies for Player Piano. Nancarrow turned to the player piano because on it he could work out layer after layer of complicated tempos, rhythms, and meters that would likely defeat any owner of the conventional ten fingers. Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams have twenty fingers between them, and negotiate these difficult studies with panache. Their playing will both amuse and amaze you.
The evening also includes Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 6, Mozart’s “Lodron"” Concerto for Three Pianos and Orchestra, and the lush tone poem, “Don Juan,” by that master of the tone poem, Richard Strauss.
Additional Information:
» I know what made Mozart tic
An interview with James McConnel in London's Daily Telegraph. Mozart was obsessed with filthy verse and breaking wind - evidence, says the composer James McConnel, that his hero was a fellow Tourette's sufferer. He tells Robert Gore-Langton why music is his medicine, too
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