Four Centuries of Great Music September 3, 2023 Music Heard at Tanglewood Music Center this July Episode 4

Today on Four Centuries of Great Music is the fourth and final episode in a series of episodes - highlighting music I heard at Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox MA this July.  At Tanglewood this year, I heard performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, New Fromm Players, Pamela Z, Nicolas Pham, tenor, Jacob Greenberg piano, Pacifica Quartet, Karen Slack soprano, Tanglewood  Music Center Fellows and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Wind Ensemble.  This series of episodes of Four Centuries of Great Music of course is not a complete assemblage of the music heard but a sampling from those concerts.  And since you cannot record music at Tanglewood, what you will be hearing in this series is the music I heard except from recordings.

We are opening with Johannes Brahms String Sextet No 2 in G major  Op 36.  This was performed by the Tanglewood Music Center Fellows at one of their chamber music series concerts on Sunday July 16th in the Seiji Ozawa Hall

Johannes Brahms - String Sextet No 2 in G major  Op 36 - 1. Allegro Non Troppo
Johannes Brahms - String Sextet No 2 in G major  Op 36 - 2. Scherzo: Allegro Non Troppo
Johannes Brahms - String Sextet No 2 in G major  Op 36 - 3. Poco Adagio
Johannes Brahms - String Sextet No 2 in G major  Op 36 - 4. Poco Allegro


Also at the Tanglewood Music Center Fellows at the chamber music series concerts on Sunday July 16th in the Seiji Ozawa Hall was a performance of Sofia Gubaidulina -  Quasi Hoquetus


Lets open this second hour of today’s Four Centuries of Great Music episode highlighting music I heard at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox MA this July with James Stephenson - Symphony #2  "Voices".  This work was performed by the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Wind Ensemble also on July 16th later that afternoon in Seiji Ozawa Hall

James Stephenson - Symphony #2 Voices is in 3 movements:
I. Prelude "Of Passion"
II. Shouts and Murmurs
III. Voices of One

The majority of this last half hour of today’s Four Centuries of Great Music episode highlighting music I heard at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox MA this July will be a performance of Edward “Duke” Ellington - Suite from the River.  At Tanglewood, I heard this played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Sunday July 23rd in the Koussevitzky shed.

Sunday July 23rd - Boston Symphony Orchestra
Edward “Duke” Ellington - Suite from the River*    27

Suite from the River is in 7 movements
I. Spring
II. Meander
III. Giggling Rapids
IV. Lake
V. Vortex
VI. Riba
VII. Village Virgins


We are closing today’s episode of Four Centuries of Great Music celebrating music that I heard at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox MA this past July with Grazyna Bacewicz - Overture for orchestra.  I heard this in a performance of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra on Monday, July 17th in the Koussevitzky shed.