Wonderfully performed concert ! All wonderful works I dont think often heard live (with the exception of the Janacek) :
https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9192 ... the-street
Janacek, Leos
Sonate voor piano, "Sonáta 1.X.1905"
Eckardstein, Severin von
Sjostakovitsj, Dmitri
Sonate voor altviool en piano, op.147
Guez, Nimrod / Eckardstein, Severin von
Dutilleux, Henri
Sonatine voor fluit en piano, 1943
Kogelenberg, Herman van / Cemin, Alphonse
Medtner, Nikolai
Pianokwintet, Op. Posth. (1946)
July 27,2019 at Museum het Prinsenhof,Delft,Netherlands
A great chamber concert
Re: A great chamber concert
That's a fine program. The Shostakovich viola sonata is a tough nut to crack, isn't it? The outer movements anyway. I heard it from Yuri Bashmet and Mikhail Muntyan in Rostropovich's Shostakovich cycle at the Barbican in 1998, and even they couldn't open up this music for me.
John Francis
Re: A great chamber concert
Agree about the Shostakovich, John. I thought it was just me.John F wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:22 amThat's a fine program. The Shostakovich viola sonata is a tough nut to crack, isn't it? The outer movements anyway. I heard it from Yuri Bashmet and Mikhail Muntyan in Rostropovich's Shostakovich cycle at the Barbican in 1998, and even they couldn't open up this music for me.

Re: A great chamber concert
I enjoyed the Viola Sonata,which at times had a klezmer-like quality,albeit sad. My first hearings of it today ( I listened 3 times !). Per Wiki, the Sonata was the last composition of the composer completed less than a month before his death in 1975. The last movement is apparently dedicated to Beethoven,with some tips of the hat to the "Moonlight" ( to my ear, on re-hearing, in the piano part ).
Re: A great chamber concert
I was having a hard time reconciling the Wiki article and John F.'s comments with everything I was hearing.I liked the work well enough to purchase an mp3 download, and discover that Radio 4 left out the first movement !! ( I would assume the artists at Delft played it; Radio 4 does say " compleet." )
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