March 1, 2013
Olga Kern Plays Shostakovich
When he was a teenager in the early 1920s, Dmitri Shostakovich played piano in movie theaters for silent films. A few years later, he wrote a Piano Concerto that in places almost sounds like music he might have riffed for a Charlie Chaplin comedy. It's the rollicking, jazz-inflected Piano Concerto No. 1 by Shostakovich. We'll hear a powerhouse performance by Olga Kern (pictured) and the Nashville Symphony.
Today's Playlist
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Heinrich Franz von Biber
Sonata No. 2 in D
The Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Ingrid Matthews, director
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3
Olga Kern, piano
Bass Hall, Fort Worth, Texas
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto No. 1 in C Minor for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings, Op. 35
Olga Kern, piano, Jeffrey Bailey, trumpet, the Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville
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Moritz Moszkowski
Etincelles (Sparks), Op. 36 No. 6
Olga Kern, piano
Bass Hall, Fort Worth, Texas
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Heinrich Franz von Biber
Two movements from Harmonia Artificioso, Partita V
Geoff Nuttall and Livia Sohn, violins, Christopher Costanza, cello, Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
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Josef Suk
Meditation on St. Wenceslas, Op. 35a
James Ehnes and Amy Schwartz Moretti, violins, Richard O'Neill, viola, Robert deMaine, cello
Seattle Chamber Music Society Winter Festival, Seattle
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Modest Mussorgsky
The Old Castle, from Pictures at an Exhibition
Branford Marsalis, soprano saxophone, the English Chamber Orchestra
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Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
Libro I d'Intavolatura di Lauto, Toccata 6
Hopkinson Smith, lute
92nd Street Y, New York City
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Mauro Giuliani
Excerpt from Three Polynesia Concertanti, Op. 137
Jason Vieaux and Connie Sheu, guitars
92nd Street Y, New York City
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PT Young Artist-in-Residence
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
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Zoltan Kodaly
First movement from Cello Sonata, Op. 8
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul
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Jacob ter Veldhuis
Tallahatchie Concerto
Branford Marsalis, alto saxophone, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Lacombe, conductor
Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati