Civil Sundays: Happy Birthday Mozart

For the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his Clarinet Concerto.

Civil Sundays: Choral Works of Arvo Part

Arvo Part’s choral works christen winter time for me, and I don’t know why. I just feel like staying in, curling up with a hot spiced tea and the book that came for Christmas by way of Mrs. Claus.

Civil Sundays: Poulenc’s homage to Prokofiev by way of the oboe

Poulenc, Sonata for Oboe and Piano Op. 185 (dedicated to the memory of S. Prokofiev)

Good humanist sabbath to you.

Bach provides a bonus track for the oboe aficionado, maybe for you, Emma.

I first heard this at the Amherst Summer Music Camp in Raymond, Maine in 1971, Jane Singer on Oboe with whom I played some charming Milhaud chamber music.

And on bassoon in our quintet was Kim Laskowski, now in the New York Philharmonic.
If I am not mistaken Jane is now a computer scientist in Israel.

Six Evolutions of Yo Yo Ma

Yo Yo Ma
Six Evolutions
The Six Bach Cello Suites

Alex Ross writes his appreciation

Civil Sundays 12.30.2018

Schumann Piano Quintet
I heard the second movement twice this week in the film scores of “The Favourite” and “Fanny and Alexander”.