The “Mandarin” is “Miraculous”; plus Tchaikovsky for 6 players on the Evening Concert

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 you’ll hear a piano duet version of Bartok’s “The Miraculous Mandarin” on the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”. At 8:00 you’ll hear Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence” on the Spoleto Chamber Music Festival series.

Sunday August 6: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-45)

Two Pianos / Four Hands

Arensky: Silhouettes, Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 23 (1892)

Alessio Bax, Wu Qian, Piano

Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 19 (1918-19)

Juho Pohjonen, Orion Weiss, Piano

Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme by Paganini for Two Pianos (1941)

Wu Qian, Juho Pohjonen, Piano  

and

Spoleto Chamber Music Festival (SCM 17-06)

Fritz Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro Caprice Viennois, op. 2

Benjamin Beilman, violin; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach: Sonata in E-flat Major, wg. 63, no.5

Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence

Livia Sohn and Benjamin Beilman, violins; Daniel Phillips and Geoff Nuttall, violas; Alisa Weilerstein and Christopher Costanza, cellos