Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cantata itself is based on an actual incident--a friend is leaving Germany for his native Italy, and Bach wants to wish him well, despite the sadness in parting. The Sinfonia, in B minor, sets this tone, and somehow greatly resembles the first movement of the D minor violin concerto...
Newton Chamber Orchestra performs Robert Selig's prize-winning cantata, "Islands", the Strauss oboe concerto, and Brahms's Serenade No. 2. Philip Morehead, conductor and Patricia Morehead, oboe soloist...
Richard Kogan '77, piano, Tamara Mitchel, soprano, appear in solo with the St. Lowell in the Fields Orchestra under the baton of Gerry Moshell. Brahms's Second Piano Concerto, the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, and Brahms's Lieder. Lowell Dining Hall, 8:30 p.m. and repeat performance...
...thing which will undoubtedly suffer from neglect in Moshell's absence is the concerto--a musical genre which demands both quantity and quality of players. Moshell has scheduled a concert of all-meat and no-down concerti for his swan song. Offering several Brahms lieder as an hors d'oeuvre, Moshell at the piano will accompany soprano Tamara Mitchel '78 who might justifiably view these as warm-up exercises; she will then dive into Wagner's incredibly challenging Prelude and Liebestod from the opera Tristan and Isolde...
...sustain the richness of the first half, the concert will close with the grandiloquent Brahms Second Piano Concerto, with Richard Kogan '77 appearing as solo pianist. The composition is considered one of the most difficult works in the piano literature, not only from a technical standpoint, but more importantly, because of its musical demands...