Cygnus @ the Library of Congress
Friday, February 3 2012 CYGNUS ENSEMBLE
with guest artists
Miranda Cuckson, violin; Daniel Panner, viola; and Blair McMillen, piano
KREISLERIANA
Music by the great Austrian master/master violinist, with a peek into the Library’s Fritz Kreisler Collection, and two new works from American composer Harold Meltzer.His sextet Brion, written for Cygnus, made several “best of 2010” lists; for this occasion he unveils Kreisleriana, a brand new work for violin and piano, commissioned by the Library’s McKim Fund. His poignantly nostalgic 1919 String Quartet, Kreisler said, “is my gift to Vienna.” Drawn from our Fritz Kreisler Collection—another guest artist, his incomparable Guarneri del Gesù violin.
KREISLER: violin and piano pieces
HAROLD MELTZER: Kreisleriana (World Premiere – Library of Congress McKim Fund commission) ; Brion, first Washington performance
KREISLER: String Quartet in A minor
Thursday, March 7 2012 CYGNUS ENSEMBLE
and guest artists
Elizabeth Farnum, soprano; Joan Forsyth, piano
Distant Intervals
Dina Koston's last work, Distant Intervals, with the Samuel Beckett play, Ohio Impromptu, to which Distant Inervals is refers.
also on this program Premiere of Mario Davidovisky's complete cycle of Ladino Songs, for Cygnus and soprano Elizabeth Farnum Chester Biscardi's REsisting Stillness, for two guitars; Busoni's Berceuse Elegique; Frank Bricklle's setting of Farai un vers; David Claman's gone for foreign.
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