July 6, 2009

Meet "A Far Cry"

The PT debut of a young and talented (and irreverent) chamber orchestra from Boston that calls itself "A Far Cry." They'll play Benjamin Britten's playful "Simple Symphony." And a rarely-played gem: the Sextet in C by Erno Dohnanyi. Fred explains *why* it's so rarely played (there's a good reason!), and we'll hear an exemplary performance by members of the Nash Ensemble, in concert in Boston.

Today's Playlist

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hour 1

Max Reger
Tone Poem after Arnold Bocklin: Bacchanale
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Benjamin Britten
Simple Symphony
A Far Cry
San Pablo Catholic Church, Marathon FL
Claude Debussy (arr. Edward Grigoryan)
Menuet
Leonard & Slava Grigoryan, Guitars; (members of) Saffire: The Australian Guitar Quartet
Spivey Hall, Morrow, GA
Richard Strauss
Symphonic Fragment Josephs-Legende Op. 63 (Symphonic Fragment from The Legend of Joseph)
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, cond.
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY

hour 2

Shostakovich
Two Waltzes: Spring Waltz for clarinet and piano; Waltz for flute, clarinet, and piano
Nash Ensemble: Michael Collins, clarinet, Philippa Davies, flute, Ian Brown, piano
Handel
Suite in D major, HWV 349
Alison Balsom, trumpet, Benjamin Hochman, harpsichord/piano, Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Michael Praetorius
Psallite unigenite
The King's Singers
Spivey Hall, Morrow, GA
Messiaen
O sacrum convivium!
Netherlands Chamber Chorus; Klaas Stok, conductor
Church, College Saint-Michel, Fribourg, Switzerland
Ernst von Dohnanyi
Sextet in C Major, Op. 37
Nash Ensemble; Amelia Freedman, artistic director
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

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