Cellomania
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Tonight, Evening Music pays tribute to an instrument which seems to have carved for itself a singularly resonant, pensive, and symbolic niche in Western classical music tradition: the cello.
Bookending our evening are two composers whose works have come to represent focal points in this instrument's repertoire. First, Luigi Boccherini composed prodigiously for the cello, amassing 38 sonatas and 12 concertos, the ninth of which we'll hear tonight with cellist Jian Wang performing with Camerata Salzburg. Finally, an ailing Sergei Prokofiev also produced an entire series of cello works near the end of his life, the first of which was the Cello Sonata in C which we'll hear with Michal Kanka being accompanied by pianist Jaromir Klepac.
In the interim, neo-classical works will be featured, beginning with Myung-Whun Chung and the Berlin Philharmonic slated for Dvorak's enchanting Serenade in E for strings. Also, Josephine Gandolfi and the California Parallele Ensemble under Nicole Paiement venture in the oeuvre of Germaine Tailleferre, a lesser known colleague of Poulenc and Milhaud in the illustrious French group, "Les Six." Joseph Haydn rounds out our evening with a return to the heart of classicism with his Horn Concerto No. 3, with hornist Timothy Brown being joined by the Academy of Ancient Music under the direction of Christopher Hogwood.
Bookending our evening are two composers whose works have come to represent focal points in this instrument's repertoire. First, Luigi Boccherini composed prodigiously for the cello, amassing 38 sonatas and 12 concertos, the ninth of which we'll hear tonight with cellist Jian Wang performing with Camerata Salzburg. Finally, an ailing Sergei Prokofiev also produced an entire series of cello works near the end of his life, the first of which was the Cello Sonata in C which we'll hear with Michal Kanka being accompanied by pianist Jaromir Klepac.
In the interim, neo-classical works will be featured, beginning with Myung-Whun Chung and the Berlin Philharmonic slated for Dvorak's enchanting Serenade in E for strings. Also, Josephine Gandolfi and the California Parallele Ensemble under Nicole Paiement venture in the oeuvre of Germaine Tailleferre, a lesser known colleague of Poulenc and Milhaud in the illustrious French group, "Les Six." Joseph Haydn rounds out our evening with a return to the heart of classicism with his Horn Concerto No. 3, with hornist Timothy Brown being joined by the Academy of Ancient Music under the direction of Christopher Hogwood.
