Dvorak and Episode 1 of “The Cradle That Rocked: Rediscovering Marc Blitzstein”
At 7:00 it's the Dvorak "Sonatina for Violin and Piano" and the "String Sextet". At 8:00 the first of four episodes about composer Marc Blitzstein.
Tonight it’s chamber music by Mozart, Britten, Poulenc, Schubert and others.
The musical content tonight is a string sextet, a cello sonata, a clarinet sonata, a few art songs and a mix of keyboard works.
Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence” String Sextet on the “Evening Concert”
Florence, as in Italy...summer of 1890, Tchaikovsky made a lengthy visit there...finishing the work on his return from Florence.
Crumb’s “American Songbook” (selections) and Brahms’ “String Sextet No.1” on the “Evening Concert”
"George Crumb Lives!" There's that old joke about how a dead composer "lives".....Mr. Crumb is not one of those because he is alive and still composing.
Brahms’ Two String Sextets from “Music Mountain” on the “Evening Concert”
The St. Petersburg [String] Quartet formed in Russia in 1985. That's more than 100 years after the compostion of the works they play tonight on the Evening Concert.