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April 28, 2009
Tools of the trade?
Many composers have disavowed their early works. Some have gone so far as to destroy everything they had written up to a certain time. Antonin Dvorak was one of them. He called his early years his "mad period," and even went so far as to take a knife to the manuscript of one work and scratch out the date on the title page. We'll hear that work, his third symphony, on today's show.
Today's Playlist
hour 1
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Claude Debussy
Sarabande from "Pour le Piano"
Pianist Zoltan Kocsis
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Hugo Wolf
"Italian Serenade"
The Escher String Quartet
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
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Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 10
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Zoltan Kocsis
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Thomas Tallis
"Ave Praeclara Maris Stella"
The Vox Vocal Ensemble with conductor George Steel
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York City
hour 2
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Antonin Dvorak
Scherzo from Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81
The Orion String Quartet with pianist Peter Serkin
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Frederic Chopin
Scherzo No. 4 in E, Op. 54
Pianist Yundi Li
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Four Fugues from "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
The Orion String Quartet
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
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Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"
The Curtis Symphony Orchestra with conductor Christoph Eschenbach
Verizon Hall, Philadelphia
