The mello cello is the instrument of choice during this evening’s first hour, playing everything from Bach to Jiping, Kreisler, Kabalevsky, and back to Beethoven.
Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach, Jiping, and Kreisler. Alexander Rudin is backed by the Moscow Symphony in Kabalevsky’s Cello Concerto No. 1, while Anner Bylsma is joined by pianist Jos Van Immerseel for Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 4. Che bello!
It’s Clara Schumann’s birthday (1819), so we hear from this extraordinarily talented pianist/composer as Jozef De Beenhouwer plays her opus 11 “Romances” for piano.
Another birthday honoree is Arnold Schoenberg, who was born this day in 1874. Joel Levi leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in his “Verklarte Nacht” (Transfigured Night), composed first for string sextet and later reworked for string orchestra. Inspired by a poem by Richard Dehmel, the music tells the story of a man who forgives his beloved for conceiving a child with someone else; his compassion allows the couple’s world to be transfigured. Although early audiences were thoroughly shocked by the work (probably more by the subject matter than the music itself), it has become one of Schoenberg’s most beloved compositions.
Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach, Jiping, and Kreisler. Alexander Rudin is backed by the Moscow Symphony in Kabalevsky’s Cello Concerto No. 1, while Anner Bylsma is joined by pianist Jos Van Immerseel for Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 4. Che bello!
It’s Clara Schumann’s birthday (1819), so we hear from this extraordinarily talented pianist/composer as Jozef De Beenhouwer plays her opus 11 “Romances” for piano.
Another birthday honoree is Arnold Schoenberg, who was born this day in 1874. Joel Levi leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in his “Verklarte Nacht” (Transfigured Night), composed first for string sextet and later reworked for string orchestra. Inspired by a poem by Richard Dehmel, the music tells the story of a man who forgives his beloved for conceiving a child with someone else; his compassion allows the couple’s world to be transfigured. Although early audiences were thoroughly shocked by the work (probably more by the subject matter than the music itself), it has become one of Schoenberg’s most beloved compositions.
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