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April 26, 2011
Remembering Peter Lieberson
"If your eyes were not the color of the moon...oh, my dearest, I would not love you so! But when I hold you, I hold everything that is...in your life I see everything that lives." Composer Peter Lieberson set those verses by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda to music, as a loving gift to his second wife, mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. She only had a chance to sing them a few times before she died of cancer in 2006. This past weekend, Peter Lieberson also died. We'll hear an excerpt from Lieberson's "Neruda Songs" in today's show.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona, conductor
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Astor Piazzolla
Libertango
The Pablo Ziegler Classical Tango Quartet
Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fourth movement from String Quartet No. 14 in G, K. 387 (Spring)
The Emerson String Quartet
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Peter Lieberson
If Your Eyes Were Not the Color of the Moon, from Neruda Songs
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano, the Boston Symphony, James Levine, conductor
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Suite No. 1 in G Minor for Two Pianos, Op. 5 (Fantaisie-Tableaux)
Brigitte Engerer and Boris Berezovsky, pianos
Grange de la Touviere, Meinier, Switzerland
hour 2
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George Gershwin
Overture to Of Thee I Sing
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
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Robert Schumann
Three Romances, Op. 94
Joshua Bell, violin, Yuja Wang, piano
Verbier Festival and Academy, Verbier, Switzerland
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Lowell Liebermann
Flute Concerto, Op. 39
Christine Bailey Davis, flute, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York
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John Adams
Lollapalooza
The President's Own United States Marine Band, Maj. Jason K. Fettig, conductor
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, Maryland
