
Pinchas Zukerman plays Violin, Viola, and Conducts all at the same time!, (not!, but close!)
Zukerman is ‘soloist one’ in Bach’s “Double Violin Concerto” and the only soloist in Telemann’s “Viola Concerto”, and he conducts music of Mozart, as well.
Zukerman is ‘soloist one’ in Bach’s “Double Violin Concerto” and the only soloist in Telemann’s “Viola Concerto”, and he conducts music of Mozart, as well.
Brandenburgs numbers 2, 4 & 6, plus a Mozart Viola Quintet arae the featured works chamber music works on tonight's program.
While the string quartet as a genre had been around for over two hundred years it had been falling "out of favor" with composers, especially in France, until Debussy wrote his "String Quartet".
Prolific composers of music of the Baroque: Bach and Telemann, plus Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time"