Weekend of November 12, 2011
Juggling Barber and Babies
It's a dilemma that every working parent faces, how to do right by your children while honoring your job responsibilities as well. We'll hear how violinist Lisa Batiashvili and her husband, oboist Francois Leleux manage to juggle parenthood with the demands of a music career. And we'll hear Batiashvili on a night when Leleux was home with the kids while she played the Barber Violin Concerto in Paris.
Today's Playlist
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Niccolo Paganini
Caprice No. 23 in E-flat, Op. 1
Julia Fischer, violin
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Pixinguinha
Um a Zero (One to Zero)
Marina Piccinini, flute, the Brasil Guitar Duo
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
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The Piano Puzzler
This week's contestant is June Echols from Richmond, Virginia
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Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 46
Julia Fischer, violin, the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski, conductor
Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland
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Niccolo Paganini
Caprice No. 24 in A Minor, Op. 1
Julia Fischer, violin
Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland
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Zoltan Kodaly
First movement from Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12
Ani Kavafian and Joseph Silverstein, violins, Paul Neubauer, viola
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Vincent Segal
"Ma-Ma" FC
Ballake Sissoko, kora, Vincent Segal, cello
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Osculetur me (Let him Kiss me)
Stile Antico
Flanders Festival, Bruges, Belgium
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Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto, Op. 14
Lisa Batiashvili, violin, the French National Orchestra, David Zinman, conductor
Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, France
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Gigue from Solo Violin Partita No. 3, BWV 1006
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, France
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Gustav Mahler
Quartet in A Minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Alessio Bax, piano, Ani Kavafian, violin, Paul Neubauer, viola, Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York City