The Prolixity, Popularity & Excellence of George Phillip Telemann
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Said George Phillip Telemann: “A good composer ought to be able to set public notices to music.” That’s not what he did, but his prolixity and popularity proclaim his excellence nevertheless!
Terry Riley’s “G Song” was originally written for soprano saxophone and electronic organ, but was recomposed some years later specifically for the Kronos String Quartet, whose version we hear as the evening’s opener. Much of our first hour is taken up by the music of George Phillip Telemann, Reinhardt Goebel conducting the Musica Antiqua Köln in his Solo for Violin and Continuo in A and the Concerto in F from Tafelmusik II.
Those attending the New York Philharmonic’s opening night on September 21st will hear Maxim Vengerov play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto; but stay tuned here to enjoy a performance by Anne-Sophie Mutter, Kurt Masur conducting our own New York Philharmonic.
Jean Sibelius’s String Quartet in A Minor was written during his last academic year at the Helsinki Music Institute. His friend and a piano teacher at the institute, Ferruccio Busoni, remarked the “we realized we were in the presence of something far beyond the ordinary pupil.” Tonight’s performance of this work by the Sibelius Academy Quartet is beyond the ordinary as well, as we’re sure you’ll agree. Some traditional Georgian songs and some Gregorian chant fill out the evening, and we end with oboist Nicholas Daniel and pianist Julius Drake performing Charles Koechlin’s harmonically and melodically gorgeous Oboe Sonata, Op. 58.
Terry Riley’s “G Song” was originally written for soprano saxophone and electronic organ, but was recomposed some years later specifically for the Kronos String Quartet, whose version we hear as the evening’s opener. Much of our first hour is taken up by the music of George Phillip Telemann, Reinhardt Goebel conducting the Musica Antiqua Köln in his Solo for Violin and Continuo in A and the Concerto in F from Tafelmusik II.
Those attending the New York Philharmonic’s opening night on September 21st will hear Maxim Vengerov play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto; but stay tuned here to enjoy a performance by Anne-Sophie Mutter, Kurt Masur conducting our own New York Philharmonic.
Jean Sibelius’s String Quartet in A Minor was written during his last academic year at the Helsinki Music Institute. His friend and a piano teacher at the institute, Ferruccio Busoni, remarked the “we realized we were in the presence of something far beyond the ordinary pupil.” Tonight’s performance of this work by the Sibelius Academy Quartet is beyond the ordinary as well, as we’re sure you’ll agree. Some traditional Georgian songs and some Gregorian chant fill out the evening, and we end with oboist Nicholas Daniel and pianist Julius Drake performing Charles Koechlin’s harmonically and melodically gorgeous Oboe Sonata, Op. 58.
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