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February 2, 2010
Verdi's Quartet of Boredom, and Your Comments
Giuseppe Verdi's only string quartet was inspired...by boredom. His lead soprano got sick during rehearsals for an 1873 production of Aida. Verdi spent a month in his hotel room, and killed time by writing the only quartet he ever attempted. He later told a friend "I don't know if my quartet is beautiful or ugly, but I know it's a quartet." (C'mon, it's Verdi! Which means it's full of sweeping drama and lyrical singing lines.) Plus PT listeners' calls and comments on Fred Child's interview with Philip Glass, and on new music by David Lang.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Heinrich Biber
Sonata II a sei in D
Seattle Baroque Orchestra; Byron Schenkman, artistic director; Ingrid Matthews, music director
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Paul Hindemith
Geschwindmarsch by Beethoven: Paraphrase from Symphonia Serena
United States Marine Band; Captain Michelle A. Rakers, conductor
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Concertino in a minor, Op. 94, for two pianos
Martha Argerich and Lilya Zilberstein, piano
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Deutsches Haus, Flensburg, Germany
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Giuseppe Verdi
String Quartet in e minor
Enso String Quartet:Maureen nelson, violin; John Marcus, violin; Melissa Reardon, viola; Richard Belcher, cello
Da Camera of Houston, Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center, Houston, Texas
hour 2
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Sergei Prokofiev
Folk Dance from Romeo and Juliet
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
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Leopold Godowsky
Renaissance Book I. Sarabande in E
Sergei Kasprov, piano
Flagey Studio 1, Brussels
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Maurice Durufle
Four Motets - No. 1. Ubi caritas et amor
The King's Singers
Monastery, Osek, Czech Republic
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Henry Purcell
In Nomine, for viol consort Z746
Phantasm Ensemble; Laurence Dreyfus, director
Oriol Martorell Hall, L'Auditori, Barcelona, Spain
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Arvo Part
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
Cincinnati Music Hall , Cincinnati, Ohio
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Peter Tchaikovsky
Suite No. 4 in G Major, Op. 61: "Mozartiana"
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic; Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
