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Music Mountain #5, recorded 7/5/09

Series: Music Mountain 2009 Chamber Music Concerts
From: Music Mountain
Length: 01:56:01

Concert #5 of the 2009 Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival performed by Alexander Fiterstein and colleagues, the Zimro Project. Read the full description.

2001_hall_small Overture On Hebrew Themes For Clarinet, Piano & Strings (1919); Sergei Prokofieff
-Un Poco Allegro

Quntet For Clarinet & Stringsin A Major, K. 581 (1789); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
-Allegro
-Larghetto
-Menuetto
-Allgretto Con Variazioni

The Dreams & Prayers Of Isaac The Blind For Klezmer Clarinet & String Quartet (1994);  Oswaldo Golijov
-Prelude: Calmo, Sospeso
-Agitato-Con Fuoco-Maestoso-Senza Misura, Oscilante
-Grazioso, Teneramente-Ruvido-Presto
-Calmo, Sospeso-Allegro Pesante
-Postlude: Lento, Liberamente

First Historic Encore: The Penderecki String Quartet Quartet plays The Mozart String Quartet in B Flat Major, K. 589.

Second Historic Encore: The Gordon String Quartet performs the Loeffler String Quintet for 3 violins, viola, and cello (partial)

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Piece Description

Overture On Hebrew Themes For Clarinet, Piano & Strings (1919); Sergei Prokofieff
-Un Poco Allegro

Quntet For Clarinet & Stringsin A Major, K. 581 (1789); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
-Allegro
-Larghetto
-Menuetto
-Allgretto Con Variazioni

The Dreams & Prayers Of Isaac The Blind For Klezmer Clarinet & String Quartet (1994);  Oswaldo Golijov
-Prelude: Calmo, Sospeso
-Agitato-Con Fuoco-Maestoso-Senza Misura, Oscilante
-Grazioso, Teneramente-Ruvido-Presto
-Calmo, Sospeso-Allegro Pesante
-Postlude: Lento, Liberamente

First Historic Encore: The Penderecki String Quartet Quartet plays The Mozart String Quartet in B Flat Major, K. 589.

Second Historic Encore: The Gordon String Quartet performs the Loeffler String Quintet for 3 violins, viola, and cello (partial)

Transcript

PROGRAM NOTES

OVERTURE ON HEBREW THEMES FOR CLARINET, PIANO & STRING QUARTET
By Sergei Prokofieff (1891-1953)

From Prokofiev’s Diaries: 2 February 1920

...the Bohemian Club, a club of musicians, who had organized a reception for me on the occasion of the first performance of my “Overture on Jewish Themes”. It was a closed event, members only, about 80 people....then our “Zimro” lot performed the Brahms clarinet quintet, which was serious and boring;variations by Gnessin, which were the same and my “Overture”. The “Overture” sounded really fine, sometimes a bit shrill (for future performers: the clarinet shouldn’t shriek and the piano shouldn’t hammer), but after the previous dead numbers, however good quality they were, my piece sounded so lively and fresh that the auditorium came to life and gave me a vociferous ovation. The Overture was encored, after which I pl...
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