MASTERWORKS 2009-10
Concert Series
Capitol Theater
8:00 p.m.
Masterworks V
Friday, April 23, 2010
Stewart Goodyear, piano
Strauss: Capriccio Sextet
Hummel: Piano Concerto in A Minor, op 85
Schubert: Symphony #9 in C Major, 'The Great'
The final concert of the indoor season features the talents of pianist, Stewart Goodyear, who opened the Capitol Theater in 2005, and returns to perform Hummel’s Piano Concerto in A minor. Hummel was an older contemporary of Beethoven, whose music was more popular at the time than even Beethoven. Technically challenging and full of brilliance and vigor, this work is gaining popularity in the repertory. The Sextet for Strings by Strauss, is from his last opera, Capriccio, and is both lush and romantic. To conclude the indoor season, we finish with Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 “The Great” in C major. Even though his life was cut short at the age of 31 in 1828, Schubert was the master of the German song or “lieder”. Applying his gift for melody and bridging the gap between the classical and romantic periods in music, Schubert’s last symphony is on a scale more grand than anything previously, and points the way to the next generation of symphonists.
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