Classical Music Agenda
Violinist Leila Josefowicz (photo by Deborah O’Grady)
>> Austrian pianist Till Fellner returns to Washington next Sunday (November 1, 6:30 p.m.) for the fourth installment of his complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas, at the National Gallery of Art. Even better, unlike the previous two concerts in the cycle last spring, this one is free.
MAKE IT FREE:
>> For something completely different, pianist and composer Samuel Vriezen will play a free recital on Monday night (October 26, 7:30 p.m.) at Catholic University's Ward Hall. The program includes music by Tom Johnson, Chopin, and Vriezen himself.
>> Columbia University professor Walter Frisch will give a free lecture on "Arnold Schoenberg: The Early Years, Through Verklärte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaire" on Wednesday (October 28, 12 noon) at the Library of Congress.
>> If you would rather hear music at lunchtime, try the free noontime concert on Wednesday (October 28, 12:10 p.m.) by an ensemble called Masques, featuring music by Couperin and Rameau, at the National Gallery of Art (in the lecture hall on the West Building's ground floor).
>> Also in the unusual department is the multimedia concert to be performed by pianist Guy Livingston on Friday (October 30, 8 p.m.) at the Library of Congress. Called "One Minute More," this quirky program features Livingston playing 60 one-minute excerpts by sixty different composers, accompanied by sixty one-minute films.
>> With the price of admission to the Phillips Collection on Sunday is a free concert (November 1, 4 p.m.) by the Verdehr Trio.
OTHER ORCHESTRAS:
>> Saturday night's concert by the National Philharmonic (October 31, 7:30 p.m.) will feature three concertos, for various combinations of violinist Elena Urioste, cellist Zuill Bailey, and pianist Brian Ganz, in the Music Center at Strathmore.
>> If you like your orchestral music to be more than just the same old chestnuts, check out the University of Maryland Symphony instead, also on Saturday night (October 31, 8 p.m.) at the Clarice Smith Center in College Park. The program is centered on Sibelius's fourth symphony, with other works by Wagner, Ravel, and Arturo Márquez.