A Tribute to Fritz Kreisler

Benjamin Beilman by Giorgia Bertazzi, Hyeyeon Park by D. H. Kim

Carte Blanche Concert V

A Tribute to Fritz Kreisler

The charismatic violinist Benjamin Beilman has long been a disciple of the incomparable art of the great Viennese master Fritz Kreisler. Beilman’s extraordinary celebration of Kreisler’s art includes music that inspired Kreisler as both a performer and a composer as well as a host of Kreisler’s most famous and beloved works.

PROGRAM

Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Praeludium and Allegro (1910)
Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Aucassin and Nicolette (1917)
Johann Sebastian Bach(1685–1750)
Prelude from Partita no. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (arr. Kreisler) (1720)
Arcangelo Corelli(1653–1713)
Violin Sonata in d minor, op. 5, no. 12, La folia (arr. Kreisler) (1700)
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824)
Violin Concerto no. 22 in a minor (arr. Kreisler) (ca. 1793–1794)
Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
La gitana (1917)
Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Lotus Land (after Cyril Scott’s Opus 47 Number 1) (1922)
Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Tambourin chinois, op. 3 (1910)
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov(1844–1908)
Hymn to the Sun from The Golden Cockerel (arr. Kreisler) (1919)
Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta (1941–1942)