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June 11, 2010
Hidden meanings, musical treasures
Here on PT, we often talk about the meaning of music, what the composer was trying to say. Robert Schumann made it easy for us. He spelled it out, literally, in his music. In today's show, host Fred Child sits down at the PT piano, and demonstrates some of the hidden meanings in Schumann's music, where he used the notes of the scale to spell out words and names in his melodies. Plus, a string quartet by Schumann written during a creative outburst in the summer of 1842. The Takacs Quartet performs at the Aspen Music Festival.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
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Robert Schumann
Northern Song, from Album for the Young
Rico Gulda, piano
Bosendorfer Hall, Vienna, Austria
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Robert Schumann
Variations on the Name Abegg, Op. 1
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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Robert Schumann
Intermezzo from the F-A-E Sonata
Josef Suk, violin, Josef Hala, piano
Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic
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Robert Schumann
Excerpts from Carnaval, Op. 9
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Douglas Boyd, conductor
International Chamber Orchestra Festival, St. Paul
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Mark O'Connor
F.C.'s Jig for Violin and Viola
Arnaud Sussmann, violin, Paul Neubauer, viola
OK Mozart Festival, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
hour 2
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Robert Schumann
Romance, Op. 94
Cho-Liang Lin, violin, Sandra Rivers, piano
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Robert Schumann
Manfred Overture, Op. 115
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor
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Robert Schumann
Stirb, Lieb und Freud!
Gerard Souzay, baritone, Dalton Baldwin, piano
Salle Wagram, Paris, France
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Dorothy Lawson
Chai
ETHEL
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Robert Schumann
String Quartet in A, Op. 41, No. 3
The Takacs Quartet
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
