Details
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Music for Small Orchestra
Carlo Gesualdo
“Resta di darmi noia” from Madrigals, Book 6
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Concerto in D for Piano and Orchestra
Conrad Tao,
director and piano
Morton Feldman
The Viola in My Life 3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto No. 24 for Piano and Orchestra
Conrad Tao,
director and piano
About This Program
Approximate length 1:15
Pianist and composer Conrad Tao makes his SPCO debut in a program built around Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 24. A Renaissance madrigal by Carlo Gesualdo, a sunny keyboard concerto by C.P.E. Bach, and a cryptic work for viola and piano by Morton Feldman are like a twisting labyrinth of darkness and light that anticipates the harmonic instability and searching quality of Mozart’s concerto. Ruth Crawford-Seeger’s Music for Small Orchestra frames this journey with a slow, pensive descent into the dark maze and a roguish finale that climbs towards a window of light.
Pianist and composer Conrad Tao makes his SPCO debut in a program built around Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 24. A Renaissance madrigal by Carlo Gesualdo, a sunny keyboard concerto by C.P.E. Bach, and a cryptic work for viola and piano by Morton Feldman are like a twisting labyrinth of darkness and light that anticipates the harmonic instability and searching quality of Mozart’s concerto. Ruth Crawford-Seeger’s Music for Small Orchestra frames this journey with a slow, pensive descent into the dark maze and a roguish finale that climbs towards a window of light.
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