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 In the weekly programme Absolutely Classical
(every Wednesday from 2 to 3 pm, every first Wednesday of the
month excepted) a four-part series about Carl Czerny
(1791-1857) will
be broad-
cast in March.
When hearing his name many
people think about the endless studying of etudes that were dry as
dust. And Czerny was afraid that - were he to miserably fail with a
symphony or a string quartet - he would damage
his reputation as a
decent piano teacher. That's why, for example, some forty string
quartets remained shelved.
High time to do something about
that, the Sheridan Ensemble
thought,
and they recorded a
double CD with four beautiful
string quartets. An
utter surprise which triggered programme maker/host Thijs Bonger to
make a few programmes about the composer. Carl Czerny, student and
friend of Beethoven's, teacher of Liszt, has been shamefully neglected
by both audience and musicology - according to Mr Bonger. An attempt at
rehabilitation therefore in the episodes of Absolutely Classical of 9, 16, 23 and 30 March (2 - 3 pm).
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