Year: 2013
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PROGRAM NOTES: DORIC STRING QUARTET
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…
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PROGRAM NOTES: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR
J. S. Bach: Five transcriptions Benjamin Grosvenor opens his program with a series of piano transcriptions, a genre that was wildly popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, then went out of fashion, and is now making something of a comeback. Transcription – the transferal from one medium to another – is as…
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PROGRAM NOTES: NING FENG
Program Notes: Ning Feng Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin sonata no. 1 in D major, Op. 12, no. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his first violin sonatas, a set of three (Op. 12) in 1797-98. Six more sonatas appeared by early 1803, and one more in 1812. Although we refer to these ten works as “violin…
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PROGRAM NOTES: AUGUSTIN HADELICH
Robert Schumann: Violin sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105 Schumann wrote both of his completed sonatas for violin and piano in 1851. His wife Clara played the piano parts at their public premieres with violinists Ferdinand David (No. 1 in 1852) and Joseph Joachim (No. 2 in 1853). Though frequently recorded, these…
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PROGRAM NOTES: MILOŠ KARADAGLIĆ
Bach: Suite in C minor, BWV 997, for lute In most catalogues of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), one learns that the composer wrote four suites for the lute, all dating from widely separated time periods, plus miscellaneous other pieces. However, recent scholarship has determined that in fact Bach did not…
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PROGRAM NOTES: NAREK HAKHNAZARYAN
César Franck: Sonata in A major For most of his life, Franck led a relatively quiet existence as an organist and pedagogue, emerging from obscurity as a composer only near the end of his life. His only violin sonata (which has also been arranged for numerous other instruments, notably flute, viola and cello) was created…
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THE STORY OF MILOŠ KARADAGLIĆ
An in-depth, personal account on Miloš Karadaglić – spanning his journey from an eight year old learning guitar in Montenegro to how he has become “the hottest property in classical music today.” (West Australian) If you were asked to name classical music’s most legendary guitar players, you’d probably come up with Andres Segovia, Julian…