Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: Lamentations
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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson — Lamentations: Black/Folk Song Suite
Richard Strauss — Metamorphosen for String Septet
Rudolf Leopold — Selected works
Julie Albers, cello
James Ferree, French horn
Eunice Kim, violin
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – Lamentations: Black/Folk Song Suite for Solo Cello
Richard Strauss, arr. Rudolf Leopold – Metamorphosen for String Septet
Johannes Brahms – Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40
In the midst of a global pandemic and social unrest, this is a program centered on grief but anchored in hope. Richard Strauss wrote his Metamorphosen at the close of World War II and quotes directly from Beethoven’s "Marcia funebre" found within the "Eroica" Symphony. Brahms’ Horn Trio was written in memory of his recently deceased mother, and the piece intentionally simulates the stages of grief. The concert opens with Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s 1973 Lamentations for Solo Cello, subtitled “Black/Folk Song Suite.” Perkinson described this work as “the reflection and statement of a people’s crying out.”
This is a rebroadcast of the Saturday, November 14 livestream.
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