MOZART - BEETHOVEN yMAS - OCTAVIO CHOY

We conclude our series with the music of SERGEI PROKOFIEV presenting a suite from the score of the movie THE LIEUTENANT KIJE, and excerpts from his opera THE LOVE OF THREE ORANGES

The violinist VIKTORIA MULLOVA renders her interpretation of the concerto for violin & orchestra #2 of SERGEI PROKOFIEV

Our program begins a short series with the music of SERGEI PROKOFIEV presenting a suite from his ballet ROMEO & JULIET, perhaps his most beloved work

We conclude the series with the music of ARAM KHACHATURIAN with his symphony #2. 

Our program continues with the music of ARAM KHACHATURIAN presenting his concerto for violin and orchestra.

Our program presents the pianist ALICIA DE LARROCHA interpreting ARAM KHACHATURIAN's piano concerto

Our program begins a new series with the music of Armenian composer ARAM KHACHATURIAN, presenting music from his ballets SPARTACUS and MASQUERADE

We start the new year with the music of TCHAIKOVSKY, and the ROMEO & JULIET overture

For our New Year Celebration, we return to Viena and the music of Johann Strauss II.

We celebrate the week of Christmas, with the MISA CRIOLLA composed by Argentinian ARIEL RAMIREZ, adorning the liturgy with indigenous musical instruments.

In his Choral Fantasy, a work for piano, orchestra, soloists, and chorus, Beethoven's modifies the melody of his ODE TO THE JOY, from his Symphony #9

In "THE MUSIC MAKERS", ELGAR celebrates those who make music, the dreamers of dreams with some of his best melodies.

Our program continues with the music of SIR EDWARD ELGAR, presenting his Symphony #1, Tuesday November 29, 5:30pm and Thursday, December 1, 5pm

Our program presents the legendary cellist JACQUELINE DU PRE interpreting Elgar's Cello Concerto on Tuesday, November 22, 5:30pm and Thursday, November 24, 5pm

Our program presents ELGAR's ENIGMA VARIATIONS, his first big success and one of his most popular works Tuesday November 15, 5:30pm and Thursday, November 17, 5pm.

Mozart, Beethoven & Mas begins a series with the music of SIR EDWARD ELGAR, Tuesday, November 8, 5:30pm and Thursday November 10, 5pm

Our series with the music of Jan Sibelius concludes with the presentation of the symphonic poem \ 'FINLANDIA' , felt to represent Finland's national anthem.

Our program continues the series with the music of JAN SIBELIUS, presenting his symphony #5

Our program explores Sibelius' chamber music with small pieces composed for the cello, and Sibelius only string quartet, also referred to as VOCES INTIMAS, or intimate voices.

We start a short series with the music of Finnish Composer JAN SIBELIUS, presenting his violin concerto interpreted by violinist LEONIDAS KAVADOS.

Our program presents Mozart's Violin Concerto #5, the last of the five concertos composed by Mozart in 1775, when he was 19 years old. The concert is nicknamed "The Turkish" because its last movement is a Rondo "alla Turca" , a new innovation popularized in the operas in that time.

MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS concludes the series with the music of CESAR FRANCK, presenting his SYMPHONY IN D MINOR.

229 MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS presents some of Franck's piano music and some sacred music.

MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS begins a short series with the music of French composer CESAR FRANCK, presenting Joshua Bell in Franck's violin sonata

MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS presents EDWARD GRIEG's piano concerto. Inspired by Robert Schumann's piano concerto, Grieg produces a similar intense and beautiful concerto.

Saint Saens Symphony #3 is nicknamed the "Organ Symphony" because of the significant use of the organ in the piece. Saint Saens was an accomplished Organist, thus the especial use of the instrument.

In today's program, we will hear CAMILLE SAINT SAENS CONCERTO FOR CELLO #1, and other cello pieces including THE SWAN.

 SAINT SAENS composed three concertos for violin and orchestra, as well as two other orchestral pieces for the violin. In today's program, we would listen to the violinist JOSHUA BELL in the Violin Concerto #3

 The prolific French composer Camille Saint Saens composed five concertos for piano and orchestra, of which we would listen to the Second with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

 Confronting a difficult time in his life where he even contemplated suicide, Beethoven produces his happiest symphony.

DVORAK composed his symphony #9 while visiting America, and was inspired by native and african american music, earning the name of SYMPHONY OF THE NEW WORLD.

Dvorak composed five symphonic poems, in the style of Franz Liszt inspired by literary poems. Let us listen to the Golden Spinning Wheel, one of the five.

This is one of the most beloved cello concertos in the repertoire. Let us listen to cellist YO YO MA interpretation.

 "Mozart's piano concerto #19 is also referred to as the Second Coronation Concert, composed for the coronation of King Leopold I"

Night in the Gardens of Spain is a group of symphonic studies for the piano and orchestra, almost a piano concerto by MANUEL DE FALLA

Continuing with the music of FALLA, our program presents selections from the ballet THE THREE CORNERED HAT, with popular Spanish dances like the farruca and the jota.

 Mozart, Beethoven & Mas begins a series with the music of Spanish composer, MANUEL DE FALLA featuring short pieces written for the piano and popular Spanish songs.

Mozart, Beethoven & Mas presents the first of the 16 string quartets composed by Beethoven following the classical style of Haydn & Mozart.

MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS presents the entire ROMERO Family, the group of four Guitarist, THE ROMEROS, IN THE Concierto Andaluz for four guitars.

JOAQUIN RODRIGO composed this beautiful guitar piece for the famous Spanish Guitarist ANDRES SEGOVIA. Our program presents guitarist PEPE ROMERO in this Concert.

MOZART, BEETHOVEN Y MAS presents the Guitarist PEPE ROMERO in the Beautiful CONCEIRTO DE ARANJUEZ for Guitar and Orchestra.

MOZART, BEETHOVEN Y Mas explores the Music composed for the guitar.

Mozart composed many combinations for the piano and strings, trios, quartets, and quintets. In this Program, we explore the Quartet for Piano and Strings #1

MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS presents cellist YO YO MA and pianist EMMANUEL AX in the beautiful sonata for piano and violoncello in G minor of SERGEI RACHMANINOV

MP205 BEETHOVEN: PIANO CONCERTO #3 MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS presents pianist LEIF OVE ANDSNES in Beethoven's piano concerto #3

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov was the most prolific composer of the Group of the Five. In his RUSSIAN EASTER FESTIVAL OVERTURE, he brings beautiful melodies of the Russian liturgy.

Modest Mussorgsky was another Russian composer of the GROUP OF THE FIVE. PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITON was composed originally for piano, but the most popular version is the orquestral version by RAVEL

Alexander Borodin was another Russian composer of the GROUP OF THE FIVE. In today's program, I have created a "suite" of the orchestral numbers of his opera PRINCE IGOR