october, 2015
Event Details
Classical Piano Plus! Series presents
JOHN COVELLI & FRIENDS
RARE EARTH
Sunday, October 11 at 2 PM
$25 Adult; $20 Senior/Student/Child
Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra Concertmaster Uli Speth (violin) joins John Covelli in a rare performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ beloved The Lark Ascending as well as the ever popular Beethoven’s Spring Sonata. Covelli adds mystery and intrigue with the mood colors of Woodcuts by Niels Viggo Bentzon and dazzles with Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz.
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The program includes the following:
Prelude in b minor “Russian Breeze”………….………D. Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (from 24 Preludes Op. 38)
Adagio in b minor K.540 (1788)…………………..…….W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Woodcuts (Traesnit) Op. 65 (1951)………..……Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000)
JOHN COVELLI
Sonata in F. Major No. 5, Op. 24 “Spring” (1800) ..L. von Beethoven (1770-1827)
Allegro ~ Adagio molto espressivo ~ Scherzo: Allegro molto ~ Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
ULI SPETH, VIOLIN
~ i n t e r m i s s i o n ~
Night Winds (1910)………….…………….………….Charles Griffes (1884-1920) (from 3 Tone Picture Op. 5)
“What the West Wind Saw” (1909)……………..……Claude Debussy (1862-1918) (from Preludes, Book I, No. 7))
“The Lark Ascending” (1914)…….…..…….Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) (Romance for violin and piano; original version)
ULI SPETH, VIOLIN
Polonaise Op. 53 No. 6 in A flat Major “Heroic” (1842)……………..F. Chopin (1810-1849)
The Classical Piano Plus Concert Series is sponsored by:
and is underwritten by the Edward & Karen Levene Charitable Trust Foundation.
