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August 15, 2008
if ludwig and wolfie did it...
Every time pianist Robert Levin plays a concerto by Mozart or Beethoven, he improvises the cadenzas. And even improvises along with the orchestra during their passages. He says Mozart and Beethoven would have done the same, and argues that you MUST improvise in these works to be in the true spirit of the music. Levin joins host Fred Child for some lively conversation and demonstration (improvising three wildly different versions of the same Beethoven cadenza), and we'll hear him improvise his way through Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in concert in Copenhagen.
Today's Playlist
hour 1
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Steve Howe
"Aire para un Dia (Mood for a Day)"
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
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Eric Ewazen
One movement from "Ballade, Pastorale and Dance for Flute, Horn and Piano"
Flutist Marya Martin, hornist Erik Ralske and pianist Benjamin Hochman
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Bridgehampton, New York
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Johann Sebastian Bach and Gustav Mahler
"Suite from the Orchestral Works of J.S. Bach"
The Festival Symphony Orchestra with conductor Richard Rosenberg
Hot Springs Music Festival, Hot Springs, Arkansas
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Johann Sebastian Bach
One movement from the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Kaul Auditorium, Portland, Oregon
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Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Flute and Piano
Flutist Leone Buyse and pianist Jon Kimura Parker
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Orcas Island, Washington
hour 2
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Carlos Guastavino
"Pampamapa"
Violist Kim Kashkashian and pianist Robert Levin
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Ludwig van Beethoven and Yuri Kuznetsov
"Meditation on Beethoven"
Pianist Yuri Kuznetsov
Grand Concert Hall, Minsk, Belarus
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58
Pianist Robert Levin with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard
Concert Hall, Danish Radio, Copenhagen, Denmark
