Musically Speaking

BCMS performed Schumann’s amusing Fairy Tale Tellings in WGBH’s Fraser Performance Studio in March 2009. The audio and video recordings of the performance are available through WGBH’s website.

BCMS pianist Mihae Lee and guests Jonathan Crow (violin) and William Purvis (French horn) brought Prokofiev’s Sonata for Solo Violin and Brahms’s Horn Trio to WGBH’s Fraser Studio in November 2009.

Johann Sebastian Bach typically composed works in groups – six Brandenburg Concertos, fifteen three-part Sinfonias, six Sonatas for violin and harpsichord, etc. He composed for the flute, although not in such tidy groupings; and he wrote exactly one piece for flute alone, the Partita.
Before 1717 all of Bach’s compositions involving the “flute” were actually composed [...]

Well, this has been fun. We decided, since we could, to enjoy this as a long project. It’s a long and many faceted piece, and a miracle of imagination and ingenuity, so it deserves months of marinating. Not that it is new to all of us — our cellist, Natasha, spent years rehearsing, performing and [...]