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April 26, 2012
Brahms Gets a Makeover
Johannes Brahms wasn't exactly known for writing great xylophone parts. Or any xylophone parts, for that matter. But Arnold Schoenberg apparently thought that was just what Brahms needed. He orchestrated a Brahms piano quartet, and included a juicy part for the xylophone in the last movement. And he threw out the piano part entirely. Just a couple of the "improvements" in a wild, sometimes wacky, and ultimately very satisfying makeover by Arnold Schoenberg. We'll hear it, from a concert in New York.
Today's Playlist
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hour 1
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Michael Torke
Opening, from Book Of Proverbs
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart, conductor
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Hildegard von Bingen
Antiphon: O Rubor Sanguinis (O Redness of the Blood)
Anonymous 4
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
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Joan Ambrosio Dalza
Piva alla Venetiana
The Toronto Consort
Seattle Early Music Guild, Seattle
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Pablo Casals
Catalan Melody: Song of the Birds
Truls Mork, cello
Philharmonie, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
hour 2
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Johannes Brahms
Third movement from Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 101
The Beaux Arts Trio
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Fourth movement from Solo Violin Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001
Chad Hoopes, violin
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Bruce Adolphe
Younger Than Springtime in the Style of Johann Sebastian Bach
Bruce Adolphe, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Johannes Brahms (Orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg)
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25
The New York Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
