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May 4, 2010
A classical love triangle
Johannes Brahms was madly in love with Clara Schumann. But Clara was in love with her husband, composer Robert Schumann. Brahms wrote to her, "I can do nothing but think of you. What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?" Brahms also poured out his anguish in a piano quartet. He subtitled it "Werther," after a fictional character who takes his own life over an unrequited love for his best friend's wife. The "Werther" quartet is in hour one, from a concert in Boston.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Clara Schumann
Scherzo in D Minor, Op. 10
Jozef De Beenhouwer, piano
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Excerpts from Suite in G Minor
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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George Frideric Handel
Ballet music from Alcina, HWV 34
The Central German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jun Markl, conductor
MDR Musiksommer, Magdeburg, Germany
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Clara Schumann
Romance No. 1, Op. 22
Frank Almond, violin, Robin Arrigo, piano
Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Florida
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Johannes Brahms
Quartet No. 3 in C Minor for Piano and Strings, Op. 60 (Werther)
Soovin Kim, violin, Beth Guterman, viola, Michal Korman, cello, Renana Gutman, piano
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
hour 2
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Georges Bizet
Excerpts from Children's Games, Op. 22
The London Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Benzi, conductor
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John Philip Sousa
The National Game
The Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
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Igor Stravinsky
The Card Game
The London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, conductor
Barbican Hall, London, England
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Trio in E-flat for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, K. 498 (Kegelstatt)
Anthony McGill, clarinet, Cynthia Phelps, viola, Inon Barnatan, piano
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Bridgehampton, New York
