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String Quartets by Mozart & Schumann, Dvorak’s Op 81 Quintet on the “Evening Concert”
It's the Penderecki String Quartet with pianist Pamela Mia Paul.
7-9 PM Monday-Thursday & Sunday
Great performances from the great concert venues, 7 to 9 pm Monday thru Thursday, and Sunday, on WILL-FM.
It's the Penderecki String Quartet with pianist Pamela Mia Paul.
The composer conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in his own work that premiered at the 2013 Proms concerts in the England.
"The Armed Man" is a cautionary tale from the 15th Century, a famous tune of the day, which became the 'cantus firmus' (fixed song) these composers used as the basis for their musical settings of the Mass.
"....Bald Mountain" was written in 1876, "Don Juan" followed in 1888...technically they are both "tone poems", amd famous ones at that.
with the New York Philharmonic on tonight's Evening Concert, concertos numbered 6, 24, & 25.
Kahane plays Mozart from New York, Muti conducts Mussorgsky in Chicago, Early Music from Cologne, newly written Classical music from Los Angeles and Chamber music of Dvorak and others.
The Quartet formed in 1985 and receives accolades wherever they perfom: "unassailable technique and intonation . . an astonishingly calibrated range of voicings and dynamics...[The Washington Post]
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music. The 20th C. master of the instrument best known in the West was Ravi Shankar (d. 2012).
Many, many, many (did I say 'many'?) famous arias on this "Opera Gala". Enjoy!
Chicago Tribune critic John von Rhein calls the CSO production "a complete triumph" (cso.org). This is the first time that the CSO has ever perfomed this work.