Pianist Alessio Bax plays chamber music; Christine Ebersole visits “Cabaret”
Featured tonight a rarely heard Cello Sonata by Tchaikovsky and songs by Gershwin and others on "This is Cabaret".
Featured tonight a rarely heard Cello Sonata by Tchaikovsky and songs by Gershwin and others on "This is Cabaret".
The "Harp" quartet gets it's "title" [assigned by the publisher] from a description of the pizzicato portions of the first movement which sound reminiscent of a harp.
Dvorak's Opus 65 Trio was written in 1883 when th ecomposer was in his early 40s, so it is a work of 'mature' Dvorak...
In addition to the wroks mentioned above, you'll hear Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, which dates from 1937; he and his wife gave the premiere in Basel, Switzerland the following year.
No 'joke' here, Haydn's "Joke" Quartet starts tonight's "Evening Concert".