Bard Music Festival
Program Seven: Russian Folk Music in the Mirror of Art Music
August 17, 2018
8 pm Performance with commentary by Marina Frolova-Walker, with the Virtual Village ensemble; Michael Brown, piano; Monika Krajewska, mezzo-soprano; Yelena Kurdina, piano; members of the Daedalus Quartet, with Karen Kim, violin; and Orion Weiss, piano
An exploration of the use of folk materials from the Lvov-Pratsch Collection (1790/1806) in classical music, to Beethoven’s “Razumovsky” Quartets through the Mighty Five to Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka.