Week of April 26, 2010

Cypress String Quartet
Two chamber works by the Cypress String Quartet, and three Russian orchestral masterpieces from the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra on Carolina Live
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  • Ensemble
    Cypress String Quartet
    Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
    Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor
    Konstantin Lifschitz, piano
    Western Piedmont Symphony
    John Gordon Ross, conductor
    Anne Francis, cello
  • Featured Compositions
    Griffes: Two Sketches Based on Native American Themes
    Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - Symphonic Fantasy after Dante
    Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, finale
    Barber: String Quartet
    Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
    Bach: English Suite No. 4 - Sarabande
    Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor - finale
  • Composers
  • Charles Tomlinson Griffes
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Samuel Barber
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Edward Elgar
  • Venue
    Dana Auditorium, Queens University, Charlotte, NC
    War Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro, NC
    Hickory, NC

    • Chamber Sparks and Symphonic Fire


    Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Two Sketches Based on Native American Themes

    Cypress String Quartet
    Cecily Ward, violin
    Tom Stone, violin
    Ethan Filner, viola
    Jennifer Kloetzel, cello

    Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - Symphonic Fantasy after Dante
    Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 - finale

    Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
    Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor

    Barber: String Quartet

    Cypress String Quartet

    Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

    Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
    Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor
    Konstantin Lifschitz, piano

    Bach: English Suite No. 4 - Sarabande

    Konstantin Lifschitz, piano

    Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor - finale

    Western Piedmont Symphony
    John Gordon Ross, conductor
    Anne Francis, cello

    Recorded in concert at Dana Auditorium, Queens University in Charlotte, NC, November 2009 (Cypress Quartet); War Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro, NC, January 2009 (Greensboro Symphony); and in Hickory, NC in 2004 (Western Piedmont Symphony)