WQXR: The Knights at Naumburg, June 2014

June 24, 2014

From WQXR: “WQXR returned to Central Park for another summer of broadcasts from the Naumburg Bandshell. The series kicked off June 24 with The Knights, the Brooklyn-based chamber orchestra, playing works by Ives, Boccherini, Andrew Norman and Mozart. Pianist/composer Timo Andres was the soloist in his much-discussed reworking of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 "Coronation." Jeff Spurgeon hosted from the newly-cleaned bandshell.”

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805): Quintet in C Major Op.30, No. 6 (arr. for string orchestra)
Timo Andres (b. 1985): Mozart "Coronation" Concerto - Recomposition, featuring Timo Andres, composer/pianist
Andrew Norman (b. 1979): Light Screens
Charles Ives (1874-1954): Three Places in New England

I. The "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his Colored Regiment)
II. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut
III. The Housatonic at Stockbridge

Photo by Zac Nicholson