Richard Goode

Richard Goode
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and sensitivity, pianist Richard Goode probes the inner reaches of works and infuses every measure with the utmost expressivity. His musicianship is an exciting combination of grandness and humility, boldness and depth -- what one critic called, "the boldness of the mind, the depth of the heart."

Goode has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today's leading interpreters of classical and romantic music. As a recitalist, he has become a favorite throughout Europe as well as the United States, including regular appearances in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, and the leading cities of Germany and Italy.

Program

Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 885 (Book II)
Bach: Four Sinfonias
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B major, BWV 892 (Book II)
Haydn: Sonata in D major (Hoboken XVI:24)
Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Sonata quasi una fantasia")
Debussy: Three Preludes
Chopin: Impromptu in F-sharp major, Op. 36
Chopin: Three Mazurkas
Chopin: Nocturne in B major, Op. 62, No. 1
Chopin: Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44

Tallis Scholars
Thursday, February 28, 2008

The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by Peter Phillips, their tireless and inspirational Oxford-educated director. Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound that he feels best serves the Renaissance repertoire, thus allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which the Tallis Scholars have become so widely renowned.

Program: "Music of Spain and Portugal"

Manuel Mendes: Asperges me (a 8)
Manuel Cardoso: Lamentations
Duarte Lobo: Pater peccavi
Duarte Lobo: Audivi vocem
Diogo Diaz Melgas: Ajuva nos
Diogo Diaz Melgas: Domine hominem
Manuel Cardoso: Magnifica Secundi Toni
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Tashi
30-Year Reunion Tour
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Ida Kavafian, violin
Fred Sherry, violoncello
Peter Serkin, piano

Since its New York debut in March 1973, Tashi has been hailed for its unusual programs and captivating performances. These four artists with impressive solo credentials brought a fresh new approach to the concert stage in the music they played.

Now, 30 years later, they are reuniting for a few special concerts to celebrate the centenary of the composer and the work that originally brought them together: France's Oliver Messiaen and his Quartet for the End of Time. Written in 1940, when Messiaen was a captive in a German prison camp in Silesia, this quartet has entranced even the most conservative classical music audience, becoming, in the words of the New York Times, "a landmark of modern chamber music." Tashi has inspired compositions by Adolphe, Douglas, Foss, Lieberson, McKinley, Takemitsu, and Wuorinen.

Program
Josquin des Prez: Ave Maria...Virgo Serena (recomposed by Charles Wuorinen)
Thomas Morley: Chistes Crosse (recomposed by Charles Wuorinen)
Toru Takemitsu: Quatrain II
Olivier Messiaen: Quatour pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)