Month: April 2013

  • PROGRAM NOTES: TARA ERRAUGHT

    PROGRAM NOTES: TARA ERRAUGHT

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      Johannes Brahms: Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs), Op. 103 More than half of Brahms’ total output was vocal, including over two hundred art songs and an additional hundred folksong arrangements. Most of them are serious, introspective, resigned or elegiac in mood. Ardent, impulsive effusions are rare, and the musical pictorialism so dear to Schubert is likewise…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: SIMON TRPČESKI

    PROGRAM NOTES: SIMON TRPČESKI

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    Program Notes: Simon Trpčeski Schubert: 16 German Dances, D. 783 (Op. 33) So indelibly is the name Johann Strauss embedded in our consciousness as the purveyor of Viennese dance music that we tend to forget such music existed well before the Waltz King appeared on the scene. Not just minor, forgotten figures like Pamer, Faisatenberger…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: DORIC STRING QUARTET

    PROGRAM NOTES: DORIC STRING QUARTET

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      Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, no. 3 A strong new current of artistic expression swept through central Europe during the late 1760s and early 1770s, known as Sturm und Drang (storm and stress). While not every work was stormy or stressful, the moniker served notice that composers were turning…