Symphony No.6 in F major Op.68, "Pastoral" (1808)
Click the words Symphony No. 6 to watch our video blog live from Avery Fisher Hall.
At the pre concert lecture with scholar Charles Bornstein AK gave a fresh translation
to Beethoven's Allegro!!
This symphony is all built up from the interval of the fourth - fa-do. and a simple motto
- repeated, inverted, transmogrifed into an architecture of breathtaking beauty
by Ludwig Van- one of the most perfect musical intelligences of all time.
The Liszt death dance ( Totentanz) for Piano Orchestra was a marvel, performed with feeling, fire and stupendous physical strength by Canadian piano virtuoso Louis Lortie
and the last work on the program Prokofiev's Scythian Suite (1915) - a pungently exquisite work that came two years after Stravinsky's Rite of Spring - primitive, modern, creative - I loved it. Glisses in the violins, Pings in the triangles, cymbals, harps, very beautiful
Afterwards we ate Weiswurst at the Heidelburg Resto.
At the pre concert lecture with scholar Charles Bornstein AK gave a fresh translation
to Beethoven's Allegro!!
This symphony is all built up from the interval of the fourth - fa-do. and a simple motto
- repeated, inverted, transmogrifed into an architecture of breathtaking beauty
by Ludwig Van- one of the most perfect musical intelligences of all time.
The Liszt death dance ( Totentanz) for Piano Orchestra was a marvel, performed with feeling, fire and stupendous physical strength by Canadian piano virtuoso Louis Lortie
and the last work on the program Prokofiev's Scythian Suite (1915) - a pungently exquisite work that came two years after Stravinsky's Rite of Spring - primitive, modern, creative - I loved it. Glisses in the violins, Pings in the triangles, cymbals, harps, very beautiful
Afterwards we ate Weiswurst at the Heidelburg Resto.
posted by CHUCK REDHAWK at 12:48 AM
4 Comments:
What music
critics
often miss
in their
dissections
of structure
are the
very qualities
that make
a piece
transcendant. Hopefully
Phoebe will
be the one
giving the
opening
lecture.
Tradition
is not the
enemy of the avant
artist. It's a smart,healthy lover
that challenges
you to expand your
skills.
The simplistic
myth of the
carefree
yet self-
destructive
artist ignores
the demands
art makes
of the
artist to
be more
physically
disciplined.It's a
triatholon
of the soul.
I attended last night (Saturday). Lortie is an amazing pianist!!! Loved the Liszt 'Ruins of Athens' especially. The Prokofiev - not so much, but this is probably an immaturity of taste on my part. Blog on!
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