Toasting Haydn's "Tost"
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
The Endellion String Quartet Member negotiates Papa Haydn's "Tost" String Quartet Op. 54/3 with ease, despite exceedingly difficult writing for the violin, no doubt written for virtuoso Johann Tost.
Maurizio Pollini performs the only work for piano that Alban Berg ever wrote, his Piano Sonata, a work printed at his own expense in 1910, which he designated his opus 1. You'll notice chords built upon superimposed intervals of the fourth, used both the shape melody and create harmony, edging towards his later atonal style.
"Winter Dreams," appropriate to the season, is the nickname for Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 in G Minor. Kurt Mazur leads the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in this musical evocation of the endless expanses and frightening beauties of the Russian landscape.
Maurizio Pollini performs the only work for piano that Alban Berg ever wrote, his Piano Sonata, a work printed at his own expense in 1910, which he designated his opus 1. You'll notice chords built upon superimposed intervals of the fourth, used both the shape melody and create harmony, edging towards his later atonal style.
"Winter Dreams," appropriate to the season, is the nickname for Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 in G Minor. Kurt Mazur leads the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in this musical evocation of the endless expanses and frightening beauties of the Russian landscape.
