Late Work of Two Geniuses

Music from the last years of two short-lived giants: two of the three late Klavierstücke (written in the last year of his life) by Franz Schubert are given luminous readings by pianist Thomas Larcher; and Nickolaus Harnoncourt leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mozart's magnificent "Jupiter" Symphony, the last symphony he was to write. Lou Harrison's "Seven Pastorales," in which he consolidated his commitment to non-standard tunings, was written in 1952; its seven movements have various dedicatees, including John Cage, his mother, and his brother. Yan Pascal Tortelier leads the Ulster Orchestra in an evocative rendition of Ravel's "Mother Goose" ballet. Luciano Berio's settings in his own musical idiom of eleven "Folk Songs," sung this evening by Christine Schadeberg, remind us of Berio’s process of reexamining the past through the present, or—as he put it—"remembering the future."
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