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Marcel Grandjany Plays Debussy

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Saturday, January 15, 2005

In 1941, the Budapest String Quartet asked harpist Marcel Grandjany to join them at the Library of Congress, where they played a work usually scored for harp and orchestra . . .
Chitose Okashiro will play the Brahms Opp. 118 and 119 Piano Pieces at Columbia University’s Miller Theater on January 21st. We offer the four Opus 119 Piano Pieces this evening in our first hour, performed by pianist Emanuel Ax. The hour ends with that 1941 performance by Marcel Grandjany and the Budapest String Quartet: Claude Debussy’s “Danses sacrée et profane,” recorded at the Library of Congress on March 19, 1941.

Hour two features violinist Salvatore Accardo in Max Bruch’s Serenade for Violin and Orchestra, with Kurt Masur conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. This is a four-movement work from 1900, with plenty of opportunity for viruosic display by the soloist, who is one of the best-known and most admired Italian violinists of his generation. Felix Aprahamian, in his booklet note for the recording calls it “the very peacock of a love song.” And love it you will!

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