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Evening Music

Tuesday, August 17, 2004
  • harp playing

    A lotta harpin' goin' on!

    Not to harp on it, but there’s a lotta harpin’ goin’ on this evening! Twentieth-century, Classical, and Baroque—written for the harp or transcribed, it all still sounds great.

In our first hour: Yolanda Kondonassis plays two solo transcriptions for the harp, a Handel passacaglia and a Bach lute suite; Beverly Bellows brings us “Four Pieces (really!) for Harp” by Lou Harrison; and Marielle Nordmann plays her own harp arrangement of Haydn’s Piano Concerto No. 8.

Trumpet music, as written or transcribed, rules the second hour. Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto in E is performed on Baroque trumpet by Niklas Eklund; the technically brilliant trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov plays some variations by Arban; Hakan Hardenberger plays trumpet-transcriptions of Telemann’s“Twelve Heroic Marches” along with organist Simon Preston, and Virgil Thompson’s own arrangement of his “At the Beach” with pianist Roland Pontinen.

Our third hour features the Suite for Sampler and Orchestra by our birthday honoree, Heiner Goebbels (b. 1952). Russell Sherman brings his unique perspective to Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 28. Shostakovich (he does keep reappearing this month, doesn’t he?) is represented by the Borodin Quartet and Sviatoslav Richter playing his Piano Quintet in G Minor. There’s more...but tune in to find out what!

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