I"ve started yet another new category - "Hot Classical Music." I've listened and played Classical Music my entire life. It's time to inflict my favorites on the rest of you. So, without further ado, here's my first entry.
Shostakovich - Piano Trio No. 2 Opus 67.
Tremendous work - I first heard it on when I was on a "date" with Itzak Perlman (if you can believe that). He was up here in the early Fall of 1991 for a few days for a Concert Association peformance. That Friday evening, myself and two others took Mr. Perlman to the Sitka Summer Music Festival Fall Classics chamber concert. The Shostakovich was the last piece on the program - absolutely fantastic - Paul Rosenthal was the violinist, Nathanial Rosen, the cellist, and I can't remember the pianist - I believe he may have been Dutch. Prototypical Shostakovich - driving rhythms, percusive yet melodic instrumentation. Technically advanced, mentally challenging, and absolutely primal and accessible.
The party afterwards was totally entertaining - Itzak and Paul reminiscing about their days at Julliard and their various teachers.
Itzak and I, of course talked baseball and tennis. A total hoot.
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