Concert Performances

Martinů’s Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani

The Orchestra Now (TŌN), conducted by Zachary Schwartzman, performs Martinů‘s Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani in a livestreamed, physically distanced concert from the Fisher Center at Bard on October 17, 2020.

​0:15 Poco allegro (a little fast)
7:11 Largo (slow & dignified)
15:45 Allegro (fast)

Bohuslav Martinů
Born: 12/8/1890 in Polička, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)
Died: 8/28/1959 at age 68 in Liestal, Switzerland

Written: 1938, at age 47
Premiered: 2/9/1940 in Basel, Switzerland by the Basle Chamber Orchestra; Paul Sacher, conductor

Concert notes by TŌN violinist Esther Goldy Roestan.