The superb chamber music organization Chamber on the Mountain will present the internationally celebrated young pianist, Dominic Cheli, in recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14, in Logan House, at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai.
Cheli will play Franz Liszt’s “Soirées de Vienne (Valses-caprices d’après François Schubert), No. 6 (1846-1852); Johannes Brahms’s “Intermezzo in A-Major, Op.118, No.2 (1893);” Cheli’s transcription of the Suite from Eric Wolfgang Korngold’s incidental music for Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1918);” George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue (1924);” and Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition – Mussorgsky (1874).”
Cheli’s program, on paper, is a daunting one. It is the Korngold that interests me. In the second half of the 20th century, Korngold’s movie scores put him beyond the pale for “serious” music lovers, but I’m pleased to note that his concert music is at last steadily gaining ground on our concert programs. His “Much Ado About Nothing” score is light and breezy, engaging and highly kinetic, Viennese in its Mozartian clarity.
Tickets for Dominic Cheli are $35, and can be obtained online at http://www.chamberonthemountain.com/tickets.html.
(“PLEASE NOTE:” says the Chamber on the Mountain: “We do not mail out tickets. When you purchase your tickets, your name will appear on our Will Call List. Please check in at the door on the afternoon of the performance.” Also: “If a performance does not sell out, tickets will be available at the door on the day of the performance.”)