There’s always room for cello!
On today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network, join me for a cool and colorful recital by cellist Timotheos Petrin and pianist Chelsea Wang.
Petrin and Wang will perform sonatas by Valentini, Debussy and Prokofiev, with Gregory Piatigorsky’s arrangement of Stravinsky’s “Suite Italienne” tossed into the mix. Violinist Maria Ioudenitch will make a guest appearance in the world premiere of “Three Consolations” for piano trio, by Estonian-Canadian composer Riho Esko Maimets. The program was presented in February at the Philadelphia’s American Philosophical Society, under the auspices of Astral Artists.
Then, following the concert broadcast, with temperatures spiking into the mid-90s, we’re off to Russia, where in St. Petersburg the high today is 58. Find refreshment in one of the underplayed symphonies of Alexander Glazunov. It will be lightly dressed by a tangy vinaigrette à la Dmitri Shostakovich. We’ll top it off with a work formulated by Mikhail Glinka while rowing across Lake Maggiore in uncharacteristically raw weather. He was in Italy, on doctor’s orders, for his health.
Raise high your glasses, from 12 to 4 p.m. EDT. The vodka will be served chilled, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
