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December 29, 2011
Franz Liszt's 200th Birthday
Looking back on 2011, one of the big stories we covered was the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt. How to sum up Liszt in just a few words? A musician of such immense skill that people whispered he was in league with the devil. A savvy businessman who encouraged those rumors, knowing that there's no such thing as bad press. A reformed rock star with a wild youth and an intensely spiritual old age. In today's show, the late great poet Bill Holm reading his own poem, based on Franz Liszt's "Forgotten Romance."
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt
Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree)
Frederic Chiu, piano
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in B Minor for Four Violins, Op. 3, No. 10, RV 580
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, director
Concertgebouw, Bruges, Belgium
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Franz Liszt
Forgotten Romance, S. 132
Rachel Barton Pine, violin, Thomas Labe, piano
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Franz Liszt
Excerpts from What One Hears from the Mountain Top (Mountain Symphony)
The Swiss-Italian Orchestra, Alexander Vedernikov, conductor
Stelio Molo Auditorium, Lugano, Switzerland
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations on La ci Darem la Mano, from Don Giovanni WoO 28
Gerard Reuter, oboe, Lara St. John, violin, Paul Coletti, viola
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, Tucson, Arizona
hour 2
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Joseph Haydn
Menuetto from String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 76, No. 4 (Sunrise)
The Escher String Quartet
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
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Traditional
Improvisation on Master of the House Sends out Lasse
Bolette Roed, recorder
Music in Paradise Festival, Paradyz, Poland
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Traditional
Improvisation on Lulajze Jezuniu (Polish Carol)
Bolette Roed, recorder
Music in Paradise Festival, Paradyz, Poland
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Traditional Irish Carol (Arranged by Matthew Oltman)
Love Came Down at Christmas
Chanticleer
Memorial Church, Stanford, California
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Traditional (Arranged by Manuel Ponce)
For You My Heart
Eduardo Fernandez, guitar
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
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PT Young Artist in Residence
Cicely Parnas, cello
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Claude Debussy
Sonata in D Minor for Cello and Piano
Cicely Parnas, cello, Kati Gleiser, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in E-flat, Hob. VIIe:1
Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet, the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Copenhagen Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
