March 12, 2008

Schumann's second symphony

Kurt Masur isn't the retiring sort. But, at the age of 80, he's giving up the last of his full-time conducting jobs, the position of music director with the French National Orchestra. Here's an opportunity to hear him lead that ensemble in a work that echoes with triumph, despite the fact that Schumann was trying to stave off mental illness while he wrote it.

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hour 1

Wilhelm Stenhammar
Second movement from Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 1
Pianist Love Derwinger with the Malmo Symphony Orchestra and conductor Paavo Jarvi
Luigi Boccherini
Flute Quintet in E-flat, Op. 21, No. 6
Flutist Alexis Kossenko and the Cambini Quartet
The Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
"The Piano Puzzler"
This week's contestant is Brandon Pederson from St. Paul, Minnesota.
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
Violinist Veronika Eberle with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Paavo Jarvi
Rheingau Music Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany

hour 2

Peter Tchaikovsky
Waltz from "The Sleeping Beauty"
The New York Philharmonic with conductor Kurt Masur
Jacob Van Eyck
"Een Schots Lietjen" ("A Little Scottish Song")
Marion Verbruggen, recorder
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Francisco Tarrega
"Reminiscences of the Alhambra"
Guitarist Xuefei Yang
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Dietrich Becker
Sonata a due, violino and viola da gamba
Julie Andrijeski, baroque violin; Patricia Halverson, viola da gamba; and Scott Pauley, theorbo
Synod Hall, Pittsburgh
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61
The French National Orchestra with conductor Kurt Masur
Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris

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