Weekend of August 16, 2008
Is interpretation a form of improvisation?
Point/counterpoint: Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg says you don't have to change the notes to improvise -- interpretation is a form of improv. Pianist Robert Levin disagrees. We'll consider the question by comparing VERY different versions of the Bach Goldberg Variations. AND... some composers have written pieces intended to sound like improv, but... you have to play the notes they wrote. Schubert "Impromptus," and Poulenc "Improvisations."
Today's Playlist
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Carl Maria von Weber
"Romanza Siciliana"
D.C. Hall's New Concert and Quadrille Band
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Bela Kovacs
Homages to Bach and de Falla, from "Two Hommages"
Clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester
Occidental Community Church, Occidental, California
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Arthur Honneger
Hommage a Maurice Ravel
Pianist Gilles Vonsattel
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
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Carl Maria von Weber
Overture to "Der Freischutz"
The Dresden Philharmonic with conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 90, D. 899
Pianist Ingrid Fliter
Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara
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Francis Poulenc
Improvisations
Pianist Francis Poulenc
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Johann Sebastian Bach
One movement from "The Goldberg Variations"
Pianist Glenn Gould
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Johann Sebastian Bach
One movement from "Goldberg Variations"
Pianist Rosalyn Tureck
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Johann Sebastian Bach
One movement from "The Goldberg Variations"
Pianist Murray Perahia
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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