Tabulatura Nova at 400 - Join us this week on Harmonia as we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Samuel Scheidt's Tabulatura Nova, a pivotal collection of organ music that contained many different keyboard genres and a new type of notation for organists. We'll explore its legacy and its influence on both Baroque and later musicians.
Never mind TS Eliot's description of April as the "cruelest month" April is also the loveliest month! It happens to be the Academy of American Poets' annual celebration NATIONAL POETRY MONTH highlighting the art form and its place in our culture. You'll hear poetic music by a variety of composers, including a suite from a satirical opera-ballet about an ancient Greek lyric poet, on Sunday Baroque this week.
In Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Brahms travels in time, using ancient musical forms to explore possible futures. In Beethoven's Second Symphony, anarchic glee subverts Classical elegance. Between the two big Bs, precisely in the present, Esa-Pekka Salonen debuts his longtime friend Anders Hillborg's witty and colorful new Piano Concerto, performed with genial sophistication by soloist Emanuel Ax.
Manfred Honeck leads the orchestra in the Symphony No. 4 by Tchaikovsky and "Mothership" by DJ turned classical composer, Mason Bates. Principal Clarinet Michael Rusinek plays the Mozart Clarinet Concerto.