Capping the holiday season, our BACH CANTATA OF THE WEEK (830) is the Epiphany cantata, Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen (Dearest Emmanuel, Lord of the righteous), BWV 123. Following on THE CONCERT (930) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—two selections that, to our ears, sound like America. Only the first was actually written by an American, though: a piece called “Hymn: Largo Cantabile” from Charles Ives’s Set of 3 Short Pieces. Antonin Dvoraks “American” Quintet, Op. 97, draws on traditional American tunes, incorporating several snippets of American Indian songs. Like Ives, Dvořák took these tunes and embedded them within his own sound world, creating a piece that is certainly rooted in Native American music, but rendered in Dvořák’s own unique voice. COMPACT DISCOVERIES (1100) devotes the program to orchestral music by Gian Carlo Menotti, the Italian-American composer who is best known for his operas.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:00:02 +0000
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