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Program & Artists

Mily Balakirev Chopin Suite
Bedřich Smetana (orch. Szell) From My Life (String Quartet in E Minor)
Beethoven (orch. Weingartner) Hammerklavier (Piano Sonata No. 29)

Leon Botstein conductor

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Part of TŌN’s Fisher Center concert series

TŌN performs three orchestral transcriptions of works by master composers Beethoven, Chopin, and Smetana. In 1910, the last year of his life, composer Mily Balakirev transcribed four pieces into an orchestral suite to celebrate the centenary of Chopin’s birth. To honor another centenary in 1927, that of Beethoven’s death, Austrian conductor and composer Felix Weingartner was moved to make a full orchestration of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29, the Hammerklavier. And while teaching composition at Mannes College of Music in 1940, acclaimed conductor George Szell created an orchestral transcription of Smetana’s E-minor String Quartet, From My Life. Hear this program at the Fisher Center just days before TŌN performs it at Carnegie Hall.

These concerts will also be livestreamed on TŌNtube.

Concert Details

The concert will last approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Brief remarks by a TŌN musician

Mily Balakirev Chopin Suite
22 min
Listen

Bedřich Smetana (orch. Szell) From My Life (String Quartet in E Minor)
28 min
Listen

Intermission
20 min

Brief remarks by a TŌN musician

Beethoven (orch. Weingartner) Hammerklavier (Piano Sonata No. 29)
42 min

All timings are approximate. Program and artists subject to change.

Sample the Music

Mily Balakirev Chopin Suite

Bedřich Smetana (orch. Szell) From My Life (String Quartet in E Minor)

Beethoven (orch. Weingartner) Hammerklavier (Piano Sonata No. 29)

Photo: The Orchestra Now by Matt Dine

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