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Wednesday, October 8

György Ligeti

SYNOPSIS:
Ligeti's "out there" Violin Concerto ...

MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM:
György Ligeti (1923-2006): Violin Concerto
Saschko Gavrilov, violin; Ensemble InterContemporain; Pierre Boulez, cond.
DG 439 808

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
On Ligeti
Philharmonia Orchestra's Ligeti Web page

ALSO ON THIS DATE:
Births:
1870—French composer and organist Louis Vierne, in Poitiers;
1930—Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, in Tokyo;
1953—English composer Robert Saxon, in London;

Deaths:
1834—French composer François Boieldieu, age 58, in Jarcy;

Premieres:
1903 — Nielsen: "Helios" Overture, in Copenhagen;
1943 — Stravinsky: "Ode" (in memory of Natalie Koussevitzky), by the Boston Symphony conducted by Serge Koussevitzky;
1960 — Prokofiev: opera "The Story of a Real Man" (posthumously) at the Bolshoi in Moscow; A semi-public performance of this opera was given in Leningrad on Dec. 3, 1948, but the opera was rejected by Soviet authorities for subsequent performances during the composer's lifetime;
1966 — Stravinsky: "Requiem Canticles," in Princeton, with Robert Craft conducting;
1992 — Ligeti: Violin Concerto, in Cologne, by the Ensemble Moderne conducted by Peter Eötvös, and Saschko Gawriloff the soloist;
1993 — Corigliano: "Troubadours (Variations for Guitar and Orchestra)," at the Ordway Music Theater in St. Paul, with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hugh Wolff, and guitar soloist Sharon Isbin;
1999 — Kernis: "Garden of Light" and Torke: "Four Seasons" (both commissioned by the Disney Company at the urging of its Chief Executive, Michael Eisner), for the Millennium season of the New York Philharmonic, with Kurt Masur conducting the orchestra, vocal soloists, and choirs in both pieces;

Other:
1739—Handel completes in London his Concerto Grosso in a, Op. 6, no. 4 (Gregorian date: Oct. 19);
1898—The first issue of the magazine "Musical America" is published.

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