Pablo Casals and Nathan Milstein play Bach.

One of tonight's works is popularly known as "The Clock"  because of the "ticking" rhythm throughout the second movement.

Two hundred years. That is how long the score for the Haydn Cello Concerto #1 was 'lost'.     The score was discovered in the Prague National Museum in 1961, the work having been written (started for certain) in 1761.

In 1806 German poet Christian Schubart published a book (Ideas for an Aesthetic of Music) on the "affective" characteristics (emotional impact) of the 'keys' of music, for example, C Major, G Minor, etc. Tonight's program should be "bright", with many pieces in the key of D Major, described by Schubart as: "The key of triumph, of Hallejuahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. "

Four evenings of orchestral music recorded live in concert....Bach Orchestral Suites, a Haydn Cello Concerto, and more. Won't you join us?