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7.19.2001 00:05
Classical Scene by Channing Gray
Dvorak marathon, Borge tribute in Newport
The Newport Music Festival winds to a close this weekend with a couple of midnight concerts, the final installments of the daily Dvorak marathon, and a tribute to the late Victor Borge, who became something of a regular fixture at the festival in the last years of his life.
The 17-day festival, which will have staged 63 concerts by the time it ends Sunday night, holds its annual benefit tonight at Rosecliff. Dinner is served at 6:30 under a tent on the lawn of the mansion. At 9, 23-year-old Ukrainian pianist Alexei Grynyuk, winner of the first Horowitz Competition in Kiev, makes his American debut with music by Scarlatti, Schumann, Prokofiev and Liszt.
The Liszt selection is the famed second
Hungarian Rhapsody
, here presented in the glitzy arrangement concocted by Vladimir Horowitz, which has the pianist juggling the three main themes together.
Tickets for the dinner and Grynyuk's recital are $150.
Tomorrow, things get under way beneath the Rosecliff tent with a box lunch and scores by Bach offspring Wilhelm Friedeman, Carl Reinecke and Ignaz Moscheles.
Lunch is also available at an all-Italian program at Rosecliff at 2 p.m. The program spotlights lesser known composers, such as Dragonetti, Sinigaglia, Giampieri, and Persiani. But there will be some Boccherini as well.
Music by members of the Mozart family -- that would be the famed composer, his father and youngest son, Franz Xaver -- make up the 5 p.m. program at Rosecliff. More Mozart can be heard at 9 p.m. at The Breakers as part of a recital by Canadian pianist Valerie Tyron.
Tyron will be playing the composer's charming A Major Sonata, with its lilting set of variations that forms the first movement. She opens with a handful of Scarlatti sonatas and closes with an imposing Liszt group, including the composer's dazzling
Mephisto Waltz.
And if you're still up for more music, you can catch Piers Lane at 11:45 p.m. at Marble House, when the English pianist will sit down to pieces by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Gershwin as arranged by Percy Grainger.
Two Dvorak programs (so-called "Dvorakiads") are slated for Saturday, one at 2 p.m. at Ochre Court, the other at 5:30 at Marble House. The first will feature the String Quartet No. 13, the second the Quartet No. 14.
The festival is taking an in-depth look at Dvorak this summer, with 22 programs covering the Czech composer's complete chamber output.
The day begins with British music by Elgar, Delius, Holst and Vaughan Williams, among others, and closes with another late-night offering, a dozen
Transcendental Etudes
by the Russian pianist-composer Sergey Liapunov. Liapunov, who died in 1924, composed these short pieces in the sharp keys after Liszt's similarly titled etudes in the flat keys.
There's also a 9 p.m. concert at The Breakers, a Shumann evening capped off by the composer's heroic E-Flat Major Piano Quintet.
Spanish music for guitar, voice and piano ushers in the final day of the festival at 11 a.m. at The Elms. Then one of Dvorak's greatest compositions, the wistful B Minor Cello Concerto, turns up on a 2 p.m. concert at Ochre Court, with soloist Luigi Piovano. The last of the 22 Dvorakiads takes place at 5:30 at Marble House.
The festival closes with a tribute to the late Victor Borge at 9 p.m. at The Breakers. Highlights include recordings of the beloved comic, along with Scandinavian songs and sea chanties from Swedish balladeer Sven-Bertil Taube.
Tickets for most day-time concerts are $33, and $38 for evening events at the Breakers and $25 for the midnight programs at Marble House. Call 849-0700.
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