Digital Streaming Premiere: Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. ET
Available on-demand until February 10, 2021
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
HAYDN Piano Concerto in D Major
BARTÓK Divertimento for Strings
Bartók’s Divertimento was written as a commission for the Basel Chamber Orchestra and conductor Paul Sacher. Its three movements are strongly in the Bartókian vein, unfolding as a marvelous mixing together of Modern and Romantic — blending chamber-like intimacy with orchestral strength, caustic bite with yearning restraint, lyricism with argumentative thrust.
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: Lisa Marie Mazzucco