Chopin Celebration
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Because he was born this day in 1810, we’ll hear Chopin this evening. Piano music, yes, but also some arrangements: one for orchestra and one for jazz quartet . . .
Artur Rubinstein brings us his invaluable take on the Opus 15 Nocturnes, while cellist Anner Bylsman and pianist Lambert Orkis join in the Grand duo concertant, a work based on themes from Meyerbeer’s “Robert le diable.” Leopold Stokowski, inveterate arranger that he was, conducts the Houston Symphony in his version of the Mazurka in A Minor, Op 17/4; and the Transparent Quartet, a jazz group, bring us that same mazurka as transcribed for jazz quartet by Phillip Johnston. That’s going to be very interesting . . .
We also bring you Richard Strauss’s “Don Juan” with Kurt Masur conducting the New York Phil. If you are curious as to how our local band sounds playing this work live under its current maestro, Lorin Maazel, it will be included in the all-Strauss evenings of this week’s New York Philharmonic performances.
Copland’s “Two Pieces for String Quartet” is performed by the Boromeo Quartet; this offering is from a recording on our 2005 American Music Festival picks list. But the Boromeo can be heard live playing Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert at the Metropolitan Museum’s Grace Rainey Auditorium on Thursday, March 3rd. Check it out. And if you have been longing for a chance to hear Leonard Bernstein conducts his own “Kaddish” Symphony (the No. 3), tonight’s the night. The Israel Philharmonic members are the lucky players.
Artur Rubinstein brings us his invaluable take on the Opus 15 Nocturnes, while cellist Anner Bylsman and pianist Lambert Orkis join in the Grand duo concertant, a work based on themes from Meyerbeer’s “Robert le diable.” Leopold Stokowski, inveterate arranger that he was, conducts the Houston Symphony in his version of the Mazurka in A Minor, Op 17/4; and the Transparent Quartet, a jazz group, bring us that same mazurka as transcribed for jazz quartet by Phillip Johnston. That’s going to be very interesting . . .
We also bring you Richard Strauss’s “Don Juan” with Kurt Masur conducting the New York Phil. If you are curious as to how our local band sounds playing this work live under its current maestro, Lorin Maazel, it will be included in the all-Strauss evenings of this week’s New York Philharmonic performances.
Copland’s “Two Pieces for String Quartet” is performed by the Boromeo Quartet; this offering is from a recording on our 2005 American Music Festival picks list. But the Boromeo can be heard live playing Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert at the Metropolitan Museum’s Grace Rainey Auditorium on Thursday, March 3rd. Check it out. And if you have been longing for a chance to hear Leonard Bernstein conducts his own “Kaddish” Symphony (the No. 3), tonight’s the night. The Israel Philharmonic members are the lucky players.
