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January 26, 2009
Don't worry, be happy
That's essentially the philosophy of pianist Lars Vogt when performing. All the miniscule details that go into a great performance, the notes, the phrasing, the quest for perfection - worry about that in the practice room. But when you get on stage, just relax and let the magic happen. Today, we'll hear Lars Vogt and the North German Radio Symphony performing Mozart's Piano Concerto Number 20 in Hanover, Germany. Plus, we'll visit a birthday concert at New York's Carnegie Hall in honor of mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.
Today's Playlist
hour 1
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Johannes Brahms
Adagio from Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in D Minor, Op. 108
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt
Spannungen Chamber Music Festival, Heimbach, Germany
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Traditional (Arranged by Linn Andrea Fuglseth)
"The Sun is Setting"
Trio Mediaeval
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Traditional (Arranged by Tone Krohn)
"The Little Child"
Trio Mediaeval
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Biagio Marini
Sonata Terza for Three Violins, Viola, and Harpsichord
Members of the Cactus Pear Music Festival
Cactus Pear Music Festival, San Antonio, Texas
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
Pianist Lars Vogt with the North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Pietari Inkinen
Grand Studio, Hanover, Germany
hour 2
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Allegro in B-flat for Clarinet, two Violins, Viola, and Cello
Clarinetist Emma Johnson, violinists Rebecca Hirsch and Gabor Takacs-Nagy, violist Tim Boulton, and cellist Andrew Shulman
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Edvard Grieg
"Five Lyric Pieces"
Pianist Erzsebet Kerek
Juventus Festival, Cambrai, France
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Antonio Casimir Cartellieri
Double Concerto for Two Clarinets
Clarinetists Emil Drapela and Lukas Danhel with the South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Stanislav Vavrinek
Otakar Jeremias Concert Hall, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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Gioachino Rossini
"Tanti Affetti," from "La Donna del Lago"
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and pianist Brian Zeger
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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William Bolcom
"A Song of Praise"
Marilyn Horne Foundation grant winners and pianists William Bolcom and Martin Katz
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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Giuseppe Verdi
"O Carlo, Ascolta," from "Don Carlo"
Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky and pianist Warren Jones
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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Gioachino Rossini
"Canzonetta Spagnuola"
Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and pianist Carrie-Ann Matheson
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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Gioachino Rossini
"Mura Felici," from "La Donna del Lago"
Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and conductor Roger Norrington
Music and Silence
Posted at 9:25 PM on August 31, 2009 (5 Comments)
Robert Fripp: "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
Aldous Huxley: "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Marcel Marceau: "Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."
Leopold Stokowski (to an audience not providing enough silence): "A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence."
Former pianist, now anonymous monk: "Silence is my music now."
Edith Sitwell: "My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Music theorist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis: "The same acoustic silence, embedded in two different excerpts, can be perceived dramatically differently."
John Cage, on reaction to his 'silent' piece 4'33": "They missed the point. There's no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn't know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement. During the second, raindrops began patterning the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out."
Quoted by Richard Kostelanetz in his 2003 book, "Conversing with John Cage."
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In-studio with Lang Lang, David Chan and Hai-Ye NiPianist Lang Lang is a superstar soloist among classical musicians, but that hectic schedule often keeps him from performing chamber music. Until now. Listen to Lang Lang's in-studio chamber performance two other musical powerhouses: concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra David Chan and principal cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra Hai-Ye Ni.
Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio
New Classical Tracks with Julie AmacherJulie Amacher provides an in-depth exploration of a new classical music. This week, Gustavo Dudamel's "Discoveries".
Dudamel Discoveries 11/19/2009
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Lost Gem 11/12/2009
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Star Power 11/05/2009
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For information about purchasing a CD of the Oslo Chamber Choir please contact the Oslo Chamber Choir.In studio with the Oslo Chamber Choir
The Oslo Chamber Choir joins host Fred Child in the studio during their American tour. The choir performs some lively traditional Norwegian folk songs as well some haunting arrangements of classical songs by Anton Bruckner, Edvard Grieg and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Those songs have a lingering melancholy which,the choir's conductor, Hakon Daniel Nystedt jokes "is our speciality."
PART I: Grieg and A Wedding March
PART II: Sheep herding songs and Rachmaninoff
Steve ReichPT listeners responded in droves to "New York Counterpoint," a modern classic by Steve Reich. We often read listener emails on the air, but this time we've shared them with the composer, too. Steve Reich joins Fred to comment on our listener comments, share his thoughts about the piece, and reflect on his own evolution as a composer.
Listen to the interview
Fleck-Meyer-Hussain Trio in MiamiBela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain are musical legends in their own right: on the banjo, on the double bass and on the tabla drum. They come from very different traditions, but these musicians have found some fascinating musical common ground as a trio. Fred Child joined them onstage for a live interview and performance in Miami, Florida. Their visit was hosted by Classical South Florida and made possible by the Rhythm Foundation.
Onstage in Miami
Thomas Hampson chose America's heartland - specifically Minnesota's bluff country - to kick off his Song of America tour. He gave a spectacular recital from three centuries of song at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival in Winona.
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I'll Be Seeing YouIn 2002 composer Paul Moravec wrote a piece inspired by a 1945 photograph of his parents. At the time, the young couple was not yet married and Vince, his father, was on leave from the Navy. They didn't know if they would ever see each other again. Moravec took a few notes from their favorite song, "I'll Be Seeing You", and created a new song inspired by that photograph.
Listen to Vince and Jan: 1945 by Paul Moravec
Pierre-Laurent Aimard makes work fun. The pianist joins host Fred Child in the studio to talk about and perform etudes by Claude Debussy. Etudes are studies for the piano, but Aimard reveals their artistic and thoughtful character.
Listen to Aimard's performance
Download Radio Radiance, a podcast collaboration between YPC, WNYC New York Public Radio and American Public Media. In each audio file you'll hear a performance of a new work by the the Young People's Chorus and conductor Francisco J. Núñez, plus an interview with the composer. (To download, right click then save the audio file.)
Crosstown M42 by Rob Kapilow and Fred Newman
Picaflor Esmeralda by Gabriela Lena Frank
Things by Meredith Monk
Liement Me Deport by Eve Beglarian
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