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November 18, 2009
Lang Lang Goes Chamber
This year, for the first time in his career, the young Chinese pianist Lang Lang is playing chamber music. He joined violinist David Chan (concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) and cellist Hai-Ye Ni (principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra) to play the Piano Trio by Tchaikovsky at Carnegie Hall in New York. Right before that concert, the trio joined Fred Child at the studios of WQXR in New York, to talk about the Tchaikovsky Trio, and to play the dramatic opening movement.
Today's Playlist
hour 1 Listen
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Frederic Chopin
Etude No. 3 in E
Pianist Jon Kimura Parker
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Antonin Dvorak
"Silent Woods"
Cellist Ashley Bathgate and pianist Nancy Hull
Doctorow Center for the Arts, Hunter, New York
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"The Piano Puzzler"
This week's contestant is David Engel from Norfolk, VA.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings in C Minor, Op. 35
Pianist Jon Kimura Parker and trumpeter Mark Hughes with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hans Graf
Jones Hall, Houston
hour 2 Listen
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Alexander Scriabin
Etudes No. 1 in C-sharp Minor and No. 3 in B Minor
Pianist Lang Lang
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322
Arte Dei Suonatori
Frederiksberg Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Perfchat with Lang Lang, David Chan, and Hai-Ye Ni
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Peter Tchaikovksy
First movement from Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50
Pianist Lang Lang, violinist David Chan, and cellist Hai-Ye Ni
WQXR Studios, New York City
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Felix Mendelssohn
Andante from Symphony No. 5 in D, Op. 107
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra with conductor Riccardo Chailly
Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany
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.
Download the concert for free.
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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