Camerata Bariloche
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
The Camerata Bariloche, based in Buenos Aires, a leading Latin-American chamber ensemble and the first Argentine orchestra to achieve international renown, will be heard from throughout this evening.
Performing under its current director, Fernando Hasaj, Camerata Bariloche’s first offering is the Prelude and Fugue from Villa-Lobos’s "Bachainas brasleiras" No. 9. As is usual in these tributes to Bach, Villa-Lobos combines elements of Baroque style with references to Brazilian music. Later the chamber group plays Ginastera’s “Pampeana” No. 1, a work originally written for violin and piano, designated by the composer as a rhapsody, and later orchestrated by him as a pastorale. It is explicitly national in quality, and named to evoke the Argentine pampas. Oboist Andres Spiller joins the Bariloche in our last hour for Brenno Blauth’s Concertino for Oboe and Strings. Blauth was born in Porto Alegre in 1931, and he, too, wrote music with a distinctly national bent, using rhythms and themes with popular origins, as you will hear.
Early in the evening, we hear from violinist Thomas Zehetmair, who solos and conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3. Today is his forty-third birthday. Speaking of cake and candles (or at least thinking of them), Krysztof Penderecki was born this day in 1933, so we salute him as we hear him conduct the Sinfonia Varsovia and soloist Jean-Pierre Rampal in his own Flute Concerto from 1992.
And I mustn’t forget to mention Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11, the "Serioso," played by the Emerson String Quartet during hour two, or the complete "Pétrouchka" ballet music, Riccardo Chailly at the helm of the Royal Concertgebouw.
Performing under its current director, Fernando Hasaj, Camerata Bariloche’s first offering is the Prelude and Fugue from Villa-Lobos’s "Bachainas brasleiras" No. 9. As is usual in these tributes to Bach, Villa-Lobos combines elements of Baroque style with references to Brazilian music. Later the chamber group plays Ginastera’s “Pampeana” No. 1, a work originally written for violin and piano, designated by the composer as a rhapsody, and later orchestrated by him as a pastorale. It is explicitly national in quality, and named to evoke the Argentine pampas. Oboist Andres Spiller joins the Bariloche in our last hour for Brenno Blauth’s Concertino for Oboe and Strings. Blauth was born in Porto Alegre in 1931, and he, too, wrote music with a distinctly national bent, using rhythms and themes with popular origins, as you will hear.
Early in the evening, we hear from violinist Thomas Zehetmair, who solos and conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3. Today is his forty-third birthday. Speaking of cake and candles (or at least thinking of them), Krysztof Penderecki was born this day in 1933, so we salute him as we hear him conduct the Sinfonia Varsovia and soloist Jean-Pierre Rampal in his own Flute Concerto from 1992.
And I mustn’t forget to mention Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11, the "Serioso," played by the Emerson String Quartet during hour two, or the complete "Pétrouchka" ballet music, Riccardo Chailly at the helm of the Royal Concertgebouw.
