An all-Bach program by Accademia Bizantina on “Carnegie Hall Live!”: tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Violinist Viktoria Mullova is the soloist in two of Bach's Violin Concertos and one of the Partitas for Solo Violin with Accademia Bizantina.
Violinist Viktoria Mullova is the soloist in two of Bach's Violin Concertos and one of the Partitas for Solo Violin with Accademia Bizantina.
While Ravel is often thought of as an amazing orchestrator (he was) his chamber music shares many of the same qualities of textures and sonorities.
Brahms' "Love-Song Waltzes" (Liebeslieder) are the centerpiece of the first hour of chamber music tonight, followed by the famous "Kreutzer" Violin Sonata of Beethoven
Flutist Tara Helen O'Connor is featured in the work by Poulenc; Alisa Weilerstein in the Chopin.
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.