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Weekend of July 14, 2012
The Day the Americans Came Knocking
Throughout history, conquering armies have been known to do some nasty, brutish things to the people they've vanquished. We'll never know if that worry was on Richard Strauss' mind when a bunch of American soldiers showed up at his door in Germany at the end of World War II. But the Americans weren't interested in murder or mayhem that day in 1945. Instead, one of the soldiers asked Strauss to write an oboe concerto for him. In today's show, German oboist Albrecht Mayer plays the Strauss Oboe Concerto, in concert in New York City.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Richard Strauss
Entrance and Dance of the Tailors, from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
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Luys Milan
Fantasia No. 16 for Guitar
Pepe Romero, guitar
92nd Street Y, New York City
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Jacob van Eyck
The English Nightingale, from the Flute's Garden of Delights
Michala Petri, recorder
Copenhagen Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Francois Couperin
L'Et Caetera Ou Menuets, from Concerto No. 9 (Portrait of Love)
Peter Sykes, harpsichord, Carol Ou, cello, Fenwick Smith, flute
Jordan Hall, Boston
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The Piano Puzzler
This week's contestant is Matthew Gurewitsch from Kihei, Hawaii
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Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto in D
Albrecht Mayer, oboe, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe (I Stand with one Foot in the Grave), BWV 156
Albrecht Mayer, oboe, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
hour 2
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Carl Nielsen
Second movement from Symphony No. 2
The San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
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Karol Szymanowski
Mazurka
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
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Anonymous (Arranged by Milos Valent)
Chorea Hungarica, from Pestry Zbornik (Tabulatura Miscellanea)
Solamente Naturali
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551 (Jupiter)
The San Francisco Symphony, Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
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Alexander Scriabin
Poeme No. 1 in F-sharp, Op. 32
Yuja Wang, piano
Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, Texas
