It can come on brash and it can come on sensuous. In the orchestra, it steps forward in “Peter and the Wolf” and “Rhapsody in Blue”; in opera it’s a-near protagonist in “The Magic Flute,” “La Traviata” and “The Barber of Seville” as composers delineate atmosphere and character motifs. It can sing and it can […]
Called “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation” (New York Times), pianist Simone Dinnerstein joins Yehuda Hanani in a program that addresses cultural twins of the Baroque, born less than one month and 125 kilometers apart—Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. While Bach was the great master of the polyphonic form, a […]
From humble beginnings to stardom, Antonin Dvořák straddled two centuries, two continents, rural and urban sensibilities and folk styles inspired by Czech and Slavic traditional music as well as by an American sojourn. At home in different worlds, his sublime String Quartet No. 12 the "American” was composed in Spillville Iowa during a blissful vacation, […]
Jorge Martín, Tchaikovsky, Kenji Bunch, Grieg, Poulenc Loss, remembrance, joyous recollection, metamorphosis and love. These are universal themes and a progression of states of emotion that animate the music and texture of the program. A work of shattering intensity, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio was written in response to the composer’s grief at losing his beloved teacher, […]