The 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition: Round One
Round One of 'this' piano competition is heard tonight, with the subsequent round(s) to be heard next week.
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.
Round One of 'this' piano competition is heard tonight, with the subsequent round(s) to be heard next week.
Elgar's "Enigma" Variations is enigmatic as ever as Donald Runnicles leads the CSO in the famed work...
Dvorak's 7th SYmphony was premiered in Piccadilly [UK!} on April 22, 1885 with the composer conducting...Corigliano's "Red Violin" comes more than 100 years later, his original ideas from 1998, then the concert work from 2003.
Dvorak's 7th came about in the mid 1880s, while the Elgar "Enigma" Variations were compoed in the very next decade.
The musical content tonight is a string sextet, a cello sonata, a clarinet sonata, a few art songs and a mix of keyboard works.
Overture to "The Magic Flute"; Overture to "The Magic Harp"; Symphony No. 6 on the program tonight.
The Cooper International Competition is held annually and presents monetary prizes for violin performace and piano performance. Started in 1985, the competition gained it's [new] title (Cooper) in 2010 due to the generosity of the Coopers (Thomas and Evon).
Dame Mitsuko has been playing and conducting the Mozart piano concertos from the keyboard for much of her life, most recently with the Cleveland Orchestra in recent recordings and here with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Verdi's "Requiem" is, perhaps, the most performed of the Requiem Mass settings next to Mozart's "Requiem"...you can hear why this is so by tuning in at 7:00 pm tonight.
Monday night we start the week with Verdi's "Requiem", Tuesday it's Uchida playing Mozart, Wednesday piano concertos from Cleveland and more.....