Disney Hall was full of energy on May 7th as Gustavo Dudamel conducted Yefim Bronfman on the piano with the L.A. Philharmonic in playing Joannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op,15. I especially enjoyed the second movement, Adagio, and Brahms melodic masterpiece.
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Yefim Bronfman
After the intermission we were treated by the orchestra's performance of works by J.S. Bach. The Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major was performed by a small orchestra. Bach who lived from 1685 to 1750 in Germany was the great organist and thus composed many of his works for organ. Several of his works were later orchestrated. The Fuga (Ricercata) a 6 voci from The Musical Offering had been orchestrated in 1934-35 by Anton von Webern and played with a small orchestra also.
The last Bach piece, Toccata and Fugue in D minor was orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski in 1927 for a huge orchestra. We know it as the music for the film Fantasia, played by organ. Stokowski's orchestration which we enjoyed last Thursday was full sound with great energy from 4 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, timpani, 2 harps, celesta, 9 basses, strings, and a partridge in a pear tree.. It was an uplifting evening!
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