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March 17, 2010
Irish Music, and a Piano Puzzler
Irish poet William Butler Yeats tried to "reconstruct an old song from three lines imperfectly remembered by an old peasant woman in the village, who sings them to herself." That inspired his poem, "The Salley Gardens," which has been set to music by at least half a dozen composers. We'll hear Benjamin Britten's version, sung by Sarah Connolly, in concert last week at Wigmore Hall in London. Also, Chatham Baroque plays a set of Irish jigs in concert in Pittsburgh. Two great Irish orchestras in concert in Dublin. And Bruce Adolphe has a brand new Piano Puzzler.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in D, Op. 23, No. 4
Pianist Barry Douglas
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Traditional Irish Jig
New Claret
Ensemble Galilei
Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville, Florida
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Percy Grainger
Irish Tune from County Derry
The Dallas Wind Symphony and the United States Army Field Band with conductor Jerry Junkin
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
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The Piano Puzzler
This week's contestants are a husband-and-wife team, Owen and Annette Hungerford from Columbus, IN.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467
Pianist and conductor Barry Douglas with Camerata Ireland
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
hour 2
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John Field
Go to the Devil
Pianist Miceal O'Rourke
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Traditional Irish Jig Medley
Bishop of Chester's Jig, Foxhunter's Jig, and St. Patrick's Day
Chatham Baroque
Synod Hall, Oakland, Pennsylvania
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Benjamin Britten
The Salley Gardens
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Eugene Asti
Wigmore Hall, London, England
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Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90 (Italian)
The RTE National Symphony Orchestra with conductor Gerhard Markson
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
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John Field
Nocturne No. 4 in A
Pianist Miceal O'Rourke
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Frederic Chopin
Nocturne No. 9 in B, Op. 32, No. 1
Pianist Angela Wu
The University of Michigan Chopin Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan
