The Romantic Cello

When:
Sunday, Feb 05, 2017 2:00p -
3:30p

Where:
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
465 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115

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Admission:
$25

Categories:
Date Idea, Music

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Join us at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to hear a selection of Romantic music on period instruments including Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms performed by principals of the Handel and Haydn Society!


By the first half of the 19th century it was commonplace for German masters, both great and obscure, to visit their genius upon the cello, in a way that 50 years prior had been rare. Mendelssohn composed his first cello sonata for his brother Paul, an excellent amateur; Schumann’s "Fantasiestucke" were composed over just two days and originally published for clarinet and piano, with the indication they could be performed on the cello, as well, and this is the version most often heard today. Brahms studied the cello briefly as a child; his expertise in writing for the instrument was enhanced by the friendship of some of Europe’s best cellists and can be heard in two sonatas, the “Double” concerto, and all of his chamber music. The op. 91 songs were originally composed for alto, piano, and viola, to be played by Brahms’s friend Joseph Joachim, but immediately upon publication cellists recognized the potential for their own instrument in these gorgeous songs and arrangements appeared shortly. The "Sonata in E minor" not only pays tribute to an instrument Brahms loved but to a composer he revered, J.S. Bach, whose "Art of Fugue" is used as the springboard for the sonata’s last movement.


Guy Fishman and Ian Watson perform these works on period instruments and are joined by acclaimed alto Margaret Lias in this retrospective of movingly beautiful romantic music.

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