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January 16, 2013
Not Finished After All
Johannes Brahms thought he was at the end. He was 58, convinced he was not only done with composing, but maybe even done with living. He put down his pen, got his affairs in order, said his goodbyes, and waited. But life sometimes does funny things just when you think you have it all figured out. Brahms met an amazing clarinetist, heard him play, and decided maybe there was some music left in him after all. Turns out, it was some of the most sublime music he ever wrote. We'll hear one of Brahms' autumnal works, his clarinet trio, from a concert at the Spoleto Festival.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Two Waltzes
The Nash Ensemble
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Anonymous
Desperada, Dance
Hesperion XXI
Fontfroide Music and History Festival, Fontfroide, France
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The Piano Puzzler
This week's contestant is Glenn Kramer from San Diego
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Johann Strauss, Jr.
The Kaiser Waltz, Op. 437
Festival Musicians
Music@Menlo, Atherton, California
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Maurice Ravel
La Valse
The Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stephane Deneve, conductor
Beethovensaal, Stuttgart, Germany
hour 2
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Silvestre Revueltas
El Renacuajo Paseador (the Wandering Tadpole)
The Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Maximiano Valdes, conductor
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Carl Friedrich Abel
Prelude, WKO 205, and Allegro, WKO 207
Teodoro Bau, viola da gamba
Mazovia Goes Baroque Festival, Warsaw, Poland
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Celedonio Romero
Fantasia Cubana
Pepe Romero, guitar
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
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Silvestre Revueltas
Sensemaya
The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conductor
Concert Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Johannes Brahms
Trio in A Minor, Op. 114
Todd Palmer, clarinet, Alisa Weilerstein, cello, Inon Barnatan, piano
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
