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These concerts will be broadcast by Seattle’s classical radio KING-FM. Thanks to the miracle of the Internet, they will be available live at the KING-FM website, and on concert nights I will lay out the schedule and provide a link to the concert.
I’ll provide insights into the musicians if I happen to know them. I’ll also give a preview of the pieces to be played.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, some wonderful Soviet musicians left for better countries, and Anna Polonsky was one of them. A Moscovite, she’s incredibly tiny, but when she sits down at the piano, she takes a deep breath, gets that “concentration” look in her eyes, and the sound she draws from the instrument is amazing. You’d swear that somebody six-foot-six was playing. She met pianist Orion Weiss at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and they married a few years ago. Orion is also short and slight of build, so it’s a lot of fun seeing them together, especially when they play four-handed piano duets, which they will do later this week. Anna plays this piece on Thursday night.
This is a beautiful trio written around the same time as “Don Giovanni”. It’s wonderful, sensible music for sensible people. Mozart knows how to weave a spell, and he wrote the piano part for himself. Just close your eyes and let Wolfgang take you on a trip.
Mozart: Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in G, K. 564, first movement
