Camerata Pacifica will present its second October program for the 2022-23 season on Friday, October 21st at 7:30pm at the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall. Sunday, October 23 at 3:00 pm at the Ventura County Museum in Ventura. Tuesday, October 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Huntington Museum in San Marino. It takes place on Wednesday, October 26th at 8pm at Zipper Hall at Colburn School in Los Angeles.
Participating musician is cellist Jonathan Swensen, who was recently named Musical America’s Artist of the Month. Soyeon Kate Lee, a pianist who won the Naumburg International Piano Competition. And Yura Lee, Principal Viola of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, will perform.
Yura Lee
Frédéric Chopin’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 65 (1845-46), Zoltan Kodaly’s Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8 (1915), transcribed by Lee for viola Violin solo in G minor from Heinrich Ignaz Franz Bieber’s “Passacaglia, Rosary Sonata (ca1676)” performed by Yura Lee on violin, for C-105.
Camerata Artistic Director Adrian Spence said:
The works of Chopin (1810-49), whose main or only instrument is not the piano, are very thin on the ground. Indeed, until a little research, he might have called the cello and piano sonata the only one in its category. However, it turns out that Chopin wrote works for flute and piano, a trio in G minor for violin, cello and piano, other works for cello and piano, and several dozen Polish songs. But the cello and piano sonata is the only one that continues to be heard regularly in concert.
What a surprise! Powerful and decisive — this work presents us with Chopin’s credentials as a modernist, placing him on the wave he is still riding, despite many fashion changes, and making us I am speaking to you.
According to Wikipedia, Zoltan Kodaly (1882–1967) was “a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher. It is done.”
He was a lifelong friend of Bela Bartok and the two were “each other’s musical champions”.
In any case, Bartok and Kodaly, who together scoured the European countryside and collected folk songs, parted ways in the 1930s. , and live to the ripe old age of 85. Bartok emigrated to America, where he achieved some success as a pianist, but he was less successful as a composer, and shortly after composing his greatest work, the Concerto for Orchestra, he starved to death.
Kodaly’s “Solo Cello Sonata” is a brave piece — intense, introverted and folk-based, but it has more in common with Bach’s six solo suites (BMW 1007-1012) than anything after it. Many should fall perfectly within Lee’s viola range. .
Whenever I can put together a complete Camerata program from my record collection, I start to wonder if Adrian is missing his touch. It hasn’t happened very often over the decades, especially since they changed their name from “Bach Camerata” to “Camerata Pacifica”.
There is usually at least one work that I am unaware of, and often more. These tend to be contemporary pieces, but this time they are by the 17th century composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Bieber (1644-1704). Bieber, as Dylan said, “was famous for playing long ago.” [baroque] Violin”, but remained unheard for several centuries until the Rosary Sonata was discovered and published in 1905.
Bieber’s music is unmistakably baroque and has more in common with the works of Marin Marais than with those of Bach or Handel. His sonatas take the form of inner monologues, exploring confined mental spaces unaffected by the passage of time.
Admission to all venues is $68. For tickets and other information, please visit the Box Office. Call Camerata Pacifica at 805-884-8410. [email protected]or online at www.cameratapacifica.org.
All Camerata Pacifica concerts require masks and proof of full vaccinations and boosters.
— Gerald Carpenter covers the arts as a Noozhawk contributing writer.he can be reached at [email protected] The opinions expressed are his own.
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