Writing by Be'eri Moalem

TRAVELS

On the Gringo Trail
Sibelius in the Sahara
 

JOURNALISM (Philadelphia Music Makers, Broad Street Review)

West Philly Reconsidered
Philadelphia The Folly at Broad Street
"That Blasted Orchestra" Hearing protection vs. listening dilemma
The Atlantic Coast Opera Festival
 

MUSIC CRITICISM (SFCV, Broad Street Review)

"A Mechanical Evening" Johannes String Quartet, February 13, 2008
"Expectations Turned Upside Down" Philadelphia Orchestra, February 8, 2008
"The Sure-Fire 'Sandwich' Formula" Brentano String Quartet, February 4, 2008 
"The Concertmaster Conundrum"  New Century Chamber Orchestra, June 10, 2007 
"Free but Frazzled" Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, April 22, 2007
"The Multilingual Kronos", Kronos Quartet,  April 15, 2007
"Beautifully Unsatisfying" East Bay Symphony, March 23, 2007
 "Playing in Its Mother Tongue" Amedeo Modigliani Quartet, February 25, 2007
"Beethoven's Heroism" Emerson String Quartet February 10, 2007
 

PROGRAM NOTES

Bach
     
    Brandenburg Concertos
    Cello Suites
    Cantata No. 60 (Analysis)
    English Suite No. 4 in E minor

Barber
    
   Violin Concerto

Bartók

    Violin Sonata
    Music for Strings Percussion & Celeste

Beethoven

    Piano Quartet in E-flat Op. 16
    Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90 
    Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13“Pathétique”
    String Trio in G major Op. 9 No. 1
    Violin Sonatas, Beethoven and the... (in general)
    Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1
    Violin Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23 
    Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring"
    Violin Sonata No. 7 in c minor, Op. 30 No. 2
    Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30 No. 3
    Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
    Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55
    Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op.66 First Movement (In-depth analysis)
    
Berio 
    Sequenza VI 

Berlioz 
    Roman Carnival

Biber 
    Passacaglia
    
Brahms
    
    Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120
    Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114
    Horn Trio in F major, Op. 40
    Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
    Zwei Gesange Op. 91
    Viola Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120
    Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100

Britten    
    Sinfonia Da Requiem, Op. 20
    Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia, Op. 33

Bruch
    Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 83

Cage
    Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard

Chopin
    Ballade No. 4
    Etude Op. 10 No. 5 
    Nocturne in C# minor

Clarke     
    Viola Sonata

Copland
    El Salon Mexico
    Violin Sonata

Debussy 
    String Quartet Op. 10
    Cello Sonata 
    Violin Sonata in G minor

Dvořák
    Romance for violin in F, Op. 11
    Dumky Trio, Op. 90
    Symphony No. 9 in e minor, "From the New World" 

Dohnanyi 
    Piano Quintet No. 2 in E-flat 

Dutilleux
    String Quartet

Fauré
    Piano Quartet in c minor Op. 15

Franck 
    Violin Sonata in A major 

Haydn
    String Quartet in C major Op. 20, No. 2

Harbison
    Music for 18 Winds

Higdon
    Blue Cathedral

Hindemith
    Viola Sonata Op. 11 No. 4
    Viola Sonata, Op. 25 No. 1
    Viola Concerto Der Schwanendreher
    Viola Concerto Trauermusik

Khachaturian
    Violin Concerto

Mahler 
    Rückert Lieder

Moalem
    Barchù
    Ma'alé
    Theme & Variations
    Septet

Mozart
    Adagio & Fugue in C minor, K. 546
    Piano Concerto in A major, K. 414
    Piano Sonata in A minor
    Quintet in D major, K.593
    Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat, K 364
    Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major K. 549
    Symphony No. 40 in G minor K. 550
    Symphony No. 41 in C major K. 551 "Jupiter"
    Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major K. 218

Mendelssohn 
    Rondo Cappricioso Op. 14

Menotti 
    The Old Maid and the Thief

Nixon 
    Viola Concerto
 
Prokofiev
    String Quartet #2, Op. 95

Puccini
    Gianni Schicchi

Radzynsky
    String Trio

Rachmaninoff
    Piano Concerto No. 2 

Ravel 
    Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
    La Valse
    Violin Sonata, 
    Tzigane

Reger 
    Viola Suite, Op. 131d No. 1

Saint-Saëns
    Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor 

Schoenberg 
    Verklärte Nacht 
    Pierrot Lunaire 

Schubert 
    Four-Hand Fantasia in F minor, D 940 Op. 103
    Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D 485

Schumann
    Papions 
    Davidsbundlertanze
    Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 47
    Schumann: Papions 
    Symphony No. 4 in E-flat, Op. 120

Stravinsky
    L'histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale)
    The Firebird Suite (1919) 

Tchaikovsky
    Violin Concerto
    Symphony No. 2 

Telemann
    Viola Concerto

Verdi 
    String Quartet in E minor

Villa Lobos 
    Violin Sonata Fantasia- Desesperance

Ysaÿe 
    Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 27 "Obsession"