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(Rachmaninoff (Aart Klein / www.rachmaninoff.org)
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When the twenty-year-old Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote his ambitious fantasy for orchestra, "The Rock," Tchaikovsky loved it so much that he planned to take it on tour — but died suddenly before he could do so. We'll hear Rach's "Rock" tonight from the Russian National Orchestra; Michael Pletnev conducts.
Also tonight, Lou Harrison's hop, skip and a jump for piano, the "Gigue and Musette"; winding the clock back a few centuries is archguitarist Peter Blanchette with a lively Gigue by Silvius Leopold Weiss. We'll hear an entire guitar quartet in Federico Torroba's musical postcard "Estampas," and Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya in music by "El Sabio" ("The Wise" A.K.A King Alfonso X of 13th-century Spain).
Also tonight, Lou Harrison's hop, skip and a jump for piano, the "Gigue and Musette"; winding the clock back a few centuries is archguitarist Peter Blanchette with a lively Gigue by Silvius Leopold Weiss. We'll hear an entire guitar quartet in Federico Torroba's musical postcard "Estampas," and Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya in music by "El Sabio" ("The Wise" A.K.A King Alfonso X of 13th-century Spain).
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