Eric Tomb presents two versions of the medieval songs discovered at the Benediktenbeuren Monastery in Bavaria in 1803. We first get to hear Thomas Binkley and the Studio der fruehen Musik perform a reconstruction of 21 of the songs in a carefully researched medieval style. We then hear Carl Orff's famous revisioning of another 24 of the songs (the two versions share one song in common), performed by the Atlanta Symphony and Robert Shaw Chorale.
It would be wonderful to complete this set with some or all of Ray Manzarek's 1983 minimalist/rock reworking of Orff's music. If anyone has a digital file of this piece, we'd love to get a copy.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Sunday 8 February 2009: violinist Sherban Lupu
Eric Tomb presents excerpts from two CDs by Romanian-born violinist Sherban Lupu, who is currently professor of violin at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From his George Enescu CD, which contains four of Enescu's violin works, we get the Violin Sonata #3 and the Caprice Rumain, which Lupu reconstructed from drafts Enescu had worked on for almost three decades. From his Sherban Lupu and the Peasant Virtuosos of Romania we get the first 16 of 31 tracks. Each piece is preceeded by a brief discussion with Lupu.
Sherban Lupu will perform in a Twin Cities Concert Association concert with Nevada County pianist Aileen James at 2 PM on Sunday 15 February at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, 12889 Osborne Hill Road in Grass Valley. The concert will feature works by Brahms, Dvorak, Enescu and Bartok.
To hear this program, click here or go to the Classical Edge page at kvmr.org.
Sherban Lupu will perform in a Twin Cities Concert Association concert with Nevada County pianist Aileen James at 2 PM on Sunday 15 February at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, 12889 Osborne Hill Road in Grass Valley. The concert will feature works by Brahms, Dvorak, Enescu and Bartok.
To hear this program, click here or go to the Classical Edge page at kvmr.org.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Sunday 1 February 2009: Music in the Mountains Highlights 2008
Eric Tomb talks with Maestro Paul Perry about the highlights of his final season as Artistic Director and Conductor of Music in the Mountains. The pieces played include Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the third movement of Haydn's Cello Concerto #1, featuring cellist Kristina Cooper, the second movement of Barber's Violin Concerto, featiuring MIM's concertmaster Robin Mayforth, and Beethoven's Symphony #7.
To hear this program, click here or go to the Classical Edge page at kvmr.org.`
To hear this program, click here or go to the Classical Edge page at kvmr.org.`
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