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June 10, 2010
Stranger than Fiction (Schumann's Violin Concerto)
Today, we're continuing our PT party for Robert Schumann's 200th birthday. There's much about his life that's worthy of a Gothic novel: passion, romance, madness, death. If you add in a seance and a brush with Hitler's Nazi Germany, it could be a summer blockbuster. The funny thing is, it's all true. The seance and the Nazis don't enter the picture until 80 years after Schumann's death, and all center around the premiere of his violin concerto. All the details are in hour one, plus a performance by violinist Thomas Zehetmair and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Peter Tchaikovsky
June, from the Seasons, Op. 37B
Yefim Bronfman, piano
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Jacob Clemens non Papa
Ego Flos Campi
Stile Antico
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Invention No. 6
Yang Wei, pipa, Daxun Zhang, bass
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
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Benny Golson
I Remember Clifford
Boston Brass
Virginia Arts Festival, Newport News, Virginia
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Robert Schumann
Violin Concerto in D Minor
Thomas Zehetmair, violin, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Simon Rattle, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
hour 2
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Robert Schumann
Excerpts from Album for the Young, Op. 68
Daniel Levy, piano
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Robert Schumann
Genoveva Overture, Op. 81
The Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pawel Przytocki, conductor
Witold Lutoslawski Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland
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Perfchat with Joyce Yang
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Robert Schumann
Excerpts from Carnaval, Op. 9
Joyce Yang, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Tahiti Trot, Op. 16 (Tea for Two)
The Houston Symphony Orchestra, Brett Mitchell, conductor
Jones Hall, Houston
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Unsuk Chin
Mad Tea Party, from Alice in Wonderland
The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
KlaraFestival, Brussels, Belgium
