
Dvorak’s “Opus 26 Piano Trio in G Minor” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
plus music by Britten (Canticle II), then music of Schütz and others for Holy Week on "Early Music Now".
plus music by Britten (Canticle II), then music of Schütz and others for Holy Week on "Early Music Now".
as Charles Dutoit guest conducts. Truls Mork is the soloist.
Dvorak was inspired to write his "Violin Concerto" after meeting Joseph Joachim. There's no clear historical record indicating why Joachim never performed it.
Surely the experience of those in WWII concentration camps had to feel like 'the end of time'. Messaien knew that feeling as he was a POW in a camp, where he wrote the "Quartet 'For the End of Time'".
Mozart played harpsichord and later fortepiano, violin, and viola. The anwer is out there as to the question "Did Mozart favor the viola over the violin?" His 'Viola" Quintets, like the one tonight, reflect that favoring.