Cat's Fugue, and Repressed Passion
Is it true? Well...it's a great story. Domenico Scarlatti's "Cat's Fugue" got the name because the strange rising six-note theme was plunked out by his cat, Pulcinella, walking up the keyboard of his harpsichord. The Georgia Guitar Quartet plays the Cat's Fugue, in concert in Athens, Georgia. Plus, violinist Nikolaj Znaider on the passion expressed, and the passion repressed, in Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto. (Znaider thinks the restrained passion is more interesting.) Znaider joins the Cleveland Orchestra for a concert in Miami.