Compact Discoveries 164: Goldmark Silver
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:57:00
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Fred Flaxman presents Karl Goldmark's Violin Concerto (which was once his most popular work), the first movement of his Violin Sonata, and a romantic piano piece called Quiet Hope.
Transcript
Program 164
"Goldmark Silver"
MUSIC: Goldmark: excerpt from the beginning of the third movement from The Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 28 performed by Itzhak Perlman with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn [EMI Classics 50999 5 09677 2 8, track 9] [under the following]
Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman. Stay with me for the next hour and I promise to fill it with “Goldmark Silver” -- music by Karl Goldmark which is really superb, but nowadays is not as well known as his gold record, the Rustic Wedding Symphony, which I presented in program number 163.
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The featured work in this hour will be Goldmark’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, Opus 28, which was once his most frequently performed piece. The concerto premiered in Bremen in 1877. It is a very romantic work with a Magyar march in the first movement...
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