The Golden Cockerl
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Our first hour tonight features a suite from Rismky-Korsakov's last opera, the politically scandalous "Le Coq
d'or," which had to wait until a year after the composer's death for its premier. Handel's "Water Music" performed
by Riccardo Muti and the Berlin Philharmonic completes the first hour.
Chamber music enthusiasts will appreciate the structural smoothness of Schubert's 9th String Quartet in E flat major as well as child violin prodigy Henri Vieuxtemps's Elegie for Viola and Piano. Beethoven's "Waldstein" Piano Sonata, No. 21 in C major, follows with richly adventurous fanfare.
Our second half includes Branford Marsalis as saxophone soloist in Milhaud's "Scaramouche," as well as Dvorak's initial foray into dance form, with his Op. 54 Waltzes for piano, and Haydn's Mass in C, "In Time of War," composed during Austria's ill-fated hostilities with France and an ever more triumphant Napoleon. The Julliard String Quartet concludes the programming with Bartok's compact String Quartet No. 3.
Chamber music enthusiasts will appreciate the structural smoothness of Schubert's 9th String Quartet in E flat major as well as child violin prodigy Henri Vieuxtemps's Elegie for Viola and Piano. Beethoven's "Waldstein" Piano Sonata, No. 21 in C major, follows with richly adventurous fanfare.
Our second half includes Branford Marsalis as saxophone soloist in Milhaud's "Scaramouche," as well as Dvorak's initial foray into dance form, with his Op. 54 Waltzes for piano, and Haydn's Mass in C, "In Time of War," composed during Austria's ill-fated hostilities with France and an ever more triumphant Napoleon. The Julliard String Quartet concludes the programming with Bartok's compact String Quartet No. 3.
