Top billing in this week’s picks for good concerts to hear goes to visiting musicians: two pianists, an orchestra, and some string players. Free concerts and a few other good options are after the jump.
Pianist Vladimir Feltsman (“In Russia, piano plays you!”) HEADLINES:
>> Till Fellner’s traversal of all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas continues tomorrow night (March 22, 7:30 p.m.) with Part 6 at the Embassy of Austria. Part 5, originally scheduled at the National Gallery of Art last month, was only one of many cultural events canceled by the record snowfall. It is not clear yet how or when that part of the cycle will be made up, or how the cancellation affects Fellner’s conception of the cycle.
>> Russian pianist Vladimir Feltsman comes to Washington on Friday (March 26, 8 p.m.) to give a recital in the Music Center at Strathmore, sponsored by WPAS. He will play sonatas by Haydn and Beethoven, as well as Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
>> The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra will visit the Kennedy Center Concert Hall midweek (March 24, 8 p.m.), in a concert sponsored by WPAS. Christian Tetzlaff will play Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto, but don’t worry, there will be interesting music, too: Michael Tilson Thomas will also conduct pieces by Ravel and Liszt, as well as a new work by Victor Kissine, which has received some positive reviews. Read Anne Midgette’s profile of Tilson Thomas in today’s Post for a great appreciation of the conductor.
>> Round out your week with one of the performances by cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, who plays Dvořák’s cello concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra this week (March 25, 27, and 28). Guest conductor Jakub Hruša will also lead performances of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and Janáček’s rarely heard rhapsody Taras Bulba.
>> Your weekend is all set, too, with a chamber music pick, the Sunday concert (March 28, 4 p.m.) by the Klavier Trio Amsterdam at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The program is still unannounced, but the group’s concerts, like the last one a year ago, tend to be memorable.
