Tag: cello

  • PROGRAM NOTES: THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE

    PROGRAM NOTES: THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE

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      For nearly two thousand years (ending in the 14th century), the historical Silk Road, a series of land and sea trade routes, crisscrossed Eurasia, enabling the exchange of goods and innovations from Japan to the Mediterranean Sea. Over the centuries, many important scientific and technological innovations migrated to the West along the Silk Road,…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: SITKOVETSKY TRIO

    PROGRAM NOTES: SITKOVETSKY TRIO

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      Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio no. 3 in C minor, Op. 101 This is the last work Brahms wrote for the piano trio. It is a magnificent work in every respect, from the sharply etched melodies to the concision and masterly manner in which they are handled. It is also one of Brahms’s most compact…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: NAREK HAKHNAZARYAN

    PROGRAM NOTES: NAREK HAKHNAZARYAN

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    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…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ANDREAS BRANTELID & SHAI WOSNER

    PROGRAM NOTES: ANDREAS BRANTELID & SHAI WOSNER

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    Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano Few works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) bear generic titles like symphony, quartet, concerto or sonata. Most have descriptive or evocative titles like Printemps, Jeux, Claire de lune, La mer, Nocturnes or Ibéria. Since chamber music tends, more than any other, to rely on the traditional forms of classical…