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Evening Music

Tuesday, January 11, 2005
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting - photo by Paul de Heuck
    Leonard Bernstein (Paul de Heuck)

    Bernstein Conducts Britten

    From Leonard Bernstein’s final concert, in 1990 with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, we bring you Benjamin Britten’s ‘Four Sea Interludes’ from “Peter Grimes.”

Our evening begins with a different Britten, however, “The Salley Garden” as performed by the duo-guitarists Michael Newman and Laura Oltman. Mozart’s Divertimento for Winds in F receives a spirited performance from Zefiro. Roger Heaton overdubs himself, playing all nine instruments in Gavin Bryars’ “Three Elegies for Nine Clarinets.” At last the interludes from “Peter Grimes,” which you can hear again live at Lincoln Center, performed by the New York Philharmonic on January 12, 13, 15, and 18, Xian Zhang conducting. Carlo Maria Giulini conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Brahms’ “Tragic Overture,” followed immediately by the “Joyous” Symphony No. 1 of Goerge Antheil, Barry Kolman leading the Slovak State Philharmonic.

Things get a bit dire again in our third hour; death is always untimely, merciless, cruel, and without consolation in Moussorgsky’s most important vocal work, “Songs and Dances of Death.” We hear baritone Dmitri Hvorostovskyas soloist; Valery Gergiev conducts the Kirov Orchestra. Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic bring us Schubert’s Symphony No. 2 in B-flat as we wind to a close.

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