Manchester Camerata
T1163416083
Archive :: production:T1163416083, concert:S473585549, venue:V1176
A Portrait of Love
A portrait of works by composers struck by the love bug. The muse for Webern's uncharacteristically lush early Slow Movement was Wilhelmine M?rtl, his future wife. Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes explore love in all its shapes and forms. Dvorak's Love Songs, in an arrangement here by David Matthews, are all settings of romantic poems by Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky. Souvenir de Florence by Tchaikovsky, king of melodies, was dedicated to his mystery patron, Nadezhda von Meck, whom he never actually met.
