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August 10, 2012
Teacher and Student
Teacher and pupil both had wicked senses of humor. But the teacher always maintained a certain emotional distance in his music, more comedy and less pathos. It was the student who ventured into darker emotional corners. In today's show, a work by the student, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His String Quartet No. 15 is almost unrelentingly dark. Mozart dedicated the work to his teacher, the sunny, funny Joseph Haydn.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
March No. 1 in D, K. 335
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
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Jennifer Higdon
Stomp, from Short Stories
The Ancia Saxophone Quartet
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Minneapolis
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Frederic Chopin
Polonaise No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 40, No. 2
Barry Douglas, piano
Parish Church, Santa Cristina d'Aro, Spain
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 15 in D Minor, K. 421
The St. Lawrence String Quartet
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
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Mike Block
Jurjina
Mike Block, cello
New Directions Cello Festival, Ithaca, New York
hour 2
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Third movement from Piano Trio in E-flat, Op. 63
The Beethoven Project Trio
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James MacMillan
Fanfare Upon One Note
The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 (Pastoral)
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
