Beyond Improvement: Mozart's "Dissonance" Quartet
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet begins with an introduction that some contemporaries of Wolfgang found objectionable; their attempts to “improve” it failed, thank goodness!
Today’s audiences don’t find the harmonic material in any way objectionable or even surprising, but we do find it immensely satisfying. Listen to the Emerson String Quartet’s inimitable way with this work in our second hour. And enjoy them live at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on April 19th, when they join the St. Lawrence Quartet in an evening of Mendelssohn.
Kyoko Takezawa is the soloist in this evening’s performance of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto. She is backed by the brilliant playing of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin. The orchestra will be at Carnegie Hall under Music Director Designate (his tenure begins in September of this year) David Robertson on April 16th, when they will play an extraordinary evening of music by American composers Ives, Adams, and Copland. You won’t want to miss Paul Newman’s narration of the Copland “Lincoln Portrait.”
Today’s audiences don’t find the harmonic material in any way objectionable or even surprising, but we do find it immensely satisfying. Listen to the Emerson String Quartet’s inimitable way with this work in our second hour. And enjoy them live at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on April 19th, when they join the St. Lawrence Quartet in an evening of Mendelssohn.
Kyoko Takezawa is the soloist in this evening’s performance of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto. She is backed by the brilliant playing of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin. The orchestra will be at Carnegie Hall under Music Director Designate (his tenure begins in September of this year) David Robertson on April 16th, when they will play an extraordinary evening of music by American composers Ives, Adams, and Copland. You won’t want to miss Paul Newman’s narration of the Copland “Lincoln Portrait.”
