Geoff Nuttall and his Spoleto Chamber Music mates go Baroque with a performance of one of the most unappreciated musical gifts in history, played by a group Nuttall calls the “Spoleto Festival USA Baroque All-Stars." Also on this edition of Carolina Classics comes Rossini's William Tell Overture, and Dvorak's Serenade in D minor for winds.

This edition of Carolina Classics brings you a piano quartet from Mozart, Bach's Suite for solo cello, a sonata for violin and piano by Enescu, and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3.

It’s the final concert of the 2010 Spoleto Chamber Music Series, and Geoff Nuttall has a surprise in store - instead of Schubert for five, he’s got Mendelssohn for Eight – the effervescent Octet for Strings. Before we get to eight, we’ve got a two-by-four: Bach’s Second Orchestral Suite, that is, as well as Four-handed Brahms Hungarian Dances.

Spoleto Chamber Music Concert VII: This concert from the 2010 Chamber Music Series at the Dock Street Theatre features a souvenir of the Secret Life of Franz Joseph Haydn, whom Director of Chamber Music Geoff Nuttall suggests was a rock star – with the lifestyle that suggests – during his years in London. We’ll also hear composer-in-residence Jonathan Berger introduce his re-created Brahms, from old Edison piano rolls, and the Spoleto debut of pianist Inon Barnatan, the 2009 Avery Fisher Prize winner.

 

Spoleto Chamber Music Concert II
In the second concert in the 2010 Chamber Music Series at the Dock Street Theatre, Director Geoff Nuttall and his band mates in the St. Lawrence String Quartet preach the gospel of Haydn, Also in this complete concert of Chamber Music from the Spoleto Festival USA, we’ll hear a landmark Bartok trio, and a beautiful Bach sonata played on the viola.

 

SPOLETO CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT I

It’s a big day for Carolina Classics, as we bring you Day 1 of the brand-new Chamber Music Series at the Dock Street Theatre under the leadership of new Artistic Director Geoff Nuttall. You’ll hear the new and improved acoustics for yourself as Nuttall adds charm, wit, and information to the proceedings – both firmly in the style – but notably different from – his predecessor Charles Wadsworth. On today’s program, recorded on Friday afternoon, May 28th: