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October 6, 2008

High-voltage Dvorak

Two giant turbines loom large on the stage. Black iron hooks and chains dangle from the ceiling. No, it's not a medieval torture chamber. It's a concert venue, although an admittedly unusual one. It's the Heimbach Power plant in Germany, site of the Spannungen Chamber Music Festival. We'll hear a Dvorak piano quintet from Heimbach today on PT.

Today's Playlist



hour 1

  • Grigoras Dinicu
    "Hora Staccato"
    The New York Philharmonic with conductor Leonard Bernstein
  • Richard Strauss
    "Quick Waltz" from "Der Rosenkavalier"
    The New York Philharmonic with conductor Lorin Maazel
  • Leopold Godowsky and Frederic Chopin
    Two selections from "Studies on the Chopin Etudes"
    Pianist Francesco Libetta
    Miami International Piano Festival, Miami Beach
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Adagio in B-flat, K. 411
    David Shifrin and Todd Levy, clarinets; Mark Dubac, Kyle Knox and James Moffitt, basset horns
    Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Igor Stravinsky
    "The Song of the Nightingale"
    The New York Philharmonic with conductor Lorin Maazel
    Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
  • Maurice Ravel
    "Le tombeau de Couperin"
    Music@Menlo faculty members
    Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California

hour 2

  • Josef Haydn
    Moderato from the Piano Sonata No. 57 in F, Hob. XVI/47
    Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder
  • Astor Piazzolla
    "Bordel 1900" from "L'Histoire du Tango"
    Stephanie Jutt, flute and Dane Richeson, marimba
    Cactus Pear Music Festival, San Antonio, Texas
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos
    "Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9"
    The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with conductor Andreas Delfs
    Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Antonin Dvorak
    Scherzo and Finale from the Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81
    Violinists Christian Tetzlaff and Antje Weithaas, violist Kim Kashkashian, cellist Boris Pergamenschikow and pianist Lars Vogt
    Spannungen Chamber Music Festival, Heimbach, Germany
  • Josef Haydn
    Piano Concerto in D, Hob. XVIII/11
    Pianist and conductor Rudolf Buchbinder with the Vienna Philharmonic
    Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
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