A Grieg Piano Concerto
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
It’s time for a good Grieg Piano Concerto fix! Hour II features Artur Rubinstein’s unforgettable take on this work, with Eugene Ormandy wresting the best from the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Our first hour feature spotlights clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Carol Rosenberger in Johannes Brahms’ Sonata in F Minor. Shifrin comments that the clarinet in this work seems like the pianist’s third hand, extending and coloring the music in a truly collaborative way, providing a texture that is like one instrument.
Delius, who lived most of his life in France, never forgot the moors and dales of Yorkshire, land of his boyhood. “North Country Sketches” evokes the wintry winds of this bleak landscape, tempering that bleakness with a final portrayal of spring’s arrival, sap rising in response to a March sun. Richard Hickox conducts the Bournemouth Symphony.
A final offering is “Mysterious Mountain,” Alan Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 2, performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Gerard Schwarz.
Our first hour feature spotlights clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Carol Rosenberger in Johannes Brahms’ Sonata in F Minor. Shifrin comments that the clarinet in this work seems like the pianist’s third hand, extending and coloring the music in a truly collaborative way, providing a texture that is like one instrument.
Delius, who lived most of his life in France, never forgot the moors and dales of Yorkshire, land of his boyhood. “North Country Sketches” evokes the wintry winds of this bleak landscape, tempering that bleakness with a final portrayal of spring’s arrival, sap rising in response to a March sun. Richard Hickox conducts the Bournemouth Symphony.
A final offering is “Mysterious Mountain,” Alan Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 2, performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Gerard Schwarz.
