June 10, 2009

Another Gold-Medal Performance

This past Sunday, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition concluded with a rare tie for first place. On Monday's show, we featured one of the gold medalists, Nobuyuki Tsujii of Japan. On today's show, we'll hear the other, Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang. The youngest competitor in the field, Zhang gave a mature, electrifying performance of Prokofiev's second piano concerto.

Today's Playlist

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hour 1

Darius Milhaud
First movement from String Quartet No. 12
The Parisii Quartet
Astor Piazzolla
"Zita," from "Suite Troileana"
Guitarists Sergio and Odair Assad
Travis Park United Methodist Church, San Antonio, Texas
Ernest Chausson
Second movement from String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 35
The Parisii Quartet
New York Society for Ethical Culture, New York City
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16
Pianist Haochen Zhang with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and conductor James Conlon
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas

hour 2

William Walton
Second movement from Viola Concerto
Violist Helen Callus with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marc Taddei
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 9 in D, RV 230
Alison Balsom, trumpet, Benjamin Hochman, harpsichord, and Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Benjamin Dale
"Romance," from Suite for Viola
Violist Helen Callus
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
Rebecca Clarke
"Morpheus"
Violist Helen Callus
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
Bela Bartok
"Hungarian Sketches," Sz. 97
The Stavanger Symphony Orchestra with conductor Per Kristian Skalstad
Concert Hall, Stavanger, Norway

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