The Cat's Meow
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Which is more unusual, a duet for two cats, or one for clarinet and bassoon? Lucky listeners get to hear both this evening, so put out a bowl of cream and enjoy.
That jokester Gioacchino Rossini was capable of sending up his own arias, which he does in his famous “Duetto buffo di due gatti,” meowed for us this evening by Rockwell Blake and Gerard Lesne. Ludwig van Beethoven was not a trickster, and this Duo for Clarinet and Bassoon in C was not a joke, but might have been the result of a commission, although it is listed as spurious, and thus might not even be by the great man. It is enjoyable, nevertheless, and we hear the excerpted Allegro commodo played by the team of Jost Michaels and Albert Hennige.
Alan Hovhannes’s Symphony No. 46, “To the Green Mountains,” was dedicated to the Vermont Symphony, which premiered it in 1981. This evening Vakhtang Jordania conducts the Korean Broadcasting System Symphony in this paean to the glories of nature.
Mozart takes pride of place later in the evening, as we hear his “Linz” Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s tribute, Suite No. 4, known as the “Mozartiana,” and back to Wolfie himself with the Piano Concerto No. 24.
That jokester Gioacchino Rossini was capable of sending up his own arias, which he does in his famous “Duetto buffo di due gatti,” meowed for us this evening by Rockwell Blake and Gerard Lesne. Ludwig van Beethoven was not a trickster, and this Duo for Clarinet and Bassoon in C was not a joke, but might have been the result of a commission, although it is listed as spurious, and thus might not even be by the great man. It is enjoyable, nevertheless, and we hear the excerpted Allegro commodo played by the team of Jost Michaels and Albert Hennige.
Alan Hovhannes’s Symphony No. 46, “To the Green Mountains,” was dedicated to the Vermont Symphony, which premiered it in 1981. This evening Vakhtang Jordania conducts the Korean Broadcasting System Symphony in this paean to the glories of nature.
Mozart takes pride of place later in the evening, as we hear his “Linz” Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s tribute, Suite No. 4, known as the “Mozartiana,” and back to Wolfie himself with the Piano Concerto No. 24.
