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
Lovely piece! Thanks for sharing your expertise on these!
Good evening, Publius....programs getting closer. Thanks for the lead ins. ((HUGS))