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Trio Settecento plays Corelli and Muffat The multi-faceted virtuoso violinist Rachel Barton Pine heads up the Trio Settecento, performing early music with John Mark Rozendaal, baroque cello, and David Schrader, harpsichord. They play music by the trend-setting composer Arcangelo Corelli, and by the frenchman, Georg Muffat. *** Corelli: Sonata in C major, Op. 5 No. 3 Georg Muffat: Sonata in D major Trio Settecento: Rachel Barton Pine, baroque violin; John Mark Rozendaal, baroque 'cello; David Schrader, harpsichord +++ Recor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website William Hite sings Schumann Things were looking up for Robert Schumann in 1840. He was finally getting permission to marry his sweetheart, Clara Wieck, over the objections of her father. And he poured all his joy into songs - hundreds of them in that year! Dichterliebe (Poet's love) consists of 16 songs, which follow the path of love from longing and anticipation to heartache and illusion, when the lover discovers that his sentiments are not returned. *** Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48 William Hite, tenor; Jud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlie Albright plays Chopin Pianist Charlie Albright has been counted "...among the most gifted musicians of his generation" by the Washington Post, and he's the winner of dozens of prizes and awards for his playing, but he has another life too, as an undergrad working hard to finish his Economics exams at Harvard! He talks about the life of a student-artist, and plays sublime Chopin in this Fraser Performance. *** Chopin: Etudes, Op. 25: No. 1 in A-flat, No. 2 in F major, No. 7 in C-sharp minor, No. 9 in G-fla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Gramercy Trio plays Schumann Robert Schumann's great ambition was to become a concert pianist, and he was on his way to acheiving that goal when he permanently injured his hand, putting a stop to his performing career. But Clara Wieck, the love of his life, was also a great pianist, and she became the most brilliant and successful piano virtuoso of her time. So Robert was able to pour all his passion for the piano (and for Clara!) into his compositions. This is one of his best chamber pieces, the Piano Trio No. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Jones plays Liszt They all laughed in 1851 when Franz Liszt claimed that Bach’s works would “for coming centuries remain an object of admiration and astonishment.” But how were they to know? Liszt had a great admiration for the baroque master, as you can hear in this arrangement from one of Bach's Cantata themes. *** Liszt: Variations on a Theme By Bach Martin Jones, piano +++ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April 5th, 2011. ©2011 WGBH Educational Foundation. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ann Hobson Pilot and Lucia Lin play Saint Saens Ann Hobson Pilot played the harp with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for almost 40 years, until her retirement in 2008. She hasn’t retired from music, though! A highly respected chamber musician, she got together with violinist Lucia Lin for this performance of Saint Saens before a live audience of WGBH members. *** Saint Saens: Fantaisie in A major for violin and harp, Op. 124 Ann Hobson Pilot, harp; Lucia Lin, violin +++ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 4t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amarcord sings Elgar, Schumann, Steinacker and Mendelssohn The male vocal ensemble Amarcord comes from Leipzig, so they have the heritage of Bach, but also of the great German romantics that lived that city - Mendelssohn and Schumann among them. It's a treat to hear them sing Elgar as well! *** Elgar: From the Greek Anthology, Op. 45 Schumann: Die Minnesänger Steinacker: An den Mond Mendelssohn: LIebe und Wein Amarcord: Holger Krause, bass; Martin Lattke, tenor; Frank Ozimek, baritone; Wolfram Lattke, tenor; Daniel Knauft, bass. +++ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gabriel Chodos plays Schumann Robert Schumann set out to write a tribute to Beethoven. And he did that - sort of. There are themes by Beethoven - and the second movement sounds inspired by the great master. But the fact is, Schumann was in love, with the beautiful and talented Clara Wieck, and he couldn't help sounding like it in his music. See what you think. *** Robert Schumann: Fantasy in C major, Op. 17 Gabriel Chodos, piano +++ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on February 1st, 2011. ©2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovery Ensemble plays Wagner it's the best birthday present ever! Richard Wagner's wife, Cosima, woke up on her birthday morning in 1870 to the sound of this music wafting up the stairs. The composer had written his "Idyll" especially for the occasion, and hired an orchestra to come and play it for her in their villa. Discovery Ensemble re-creates the moment in this performance in our Fraser Performance Studio. *** Wagner: Siegfried Idyll. Discovery Ensemble; Courtney Lewis, conductor. +++ Recorded at WGBH& ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christina Day Martinson and Martin Pearlman play Biber No, this is not music by Justin Bieber the 21st Century teen idol! It's amazing and beautiful violin music by the 17th century violinist and composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. Biber wrote 15 of these pieces to go with engravings showing the fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary. The Canadian violinist, now resident in Boston, Christina Day Martinson played them with harpsichordist Martin Pearlman. *** Biber: from the Mystery Sonatas, Sonata no. 9 (Jesus carries his cross); Sonata no. 10 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Weilerstein Trio plays Dvorak What does "Dumky" mean? And what's it doing in the title of Dvorak's Piano trio in E minor? Well, the Dumka was just one of many Slavic folk styles that Dvorak introduced into classical pieces during his career. It's a lament really - a short, melancholy piece in three parts: slow, fast, and slow. The amazing thing about Dvorak was his ability to put so much variety and inventiveness into the six "Dumky" in this piece. The Weilerstein Trio played it in our Studio One back ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra plays Arensky The New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, NEC's conductorless orchestra, was created in 2000 by double bassist Donald Palma, a founding member of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. It gives young players a chance to work together in a completely new way, each player taking full responsibility for the sound of the group. They visited the studio this past week with music by Arensky. *** Arensky: Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a NEC Chamber Orchestra +++ Recorded at WGBH' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Antonio Pompa-Baldi plays Schubert and Martucci Piano virtuoso Antonio Pompa-Baldi visited the Fraser Performance Studio this week. Born in Italy, he's an active teacher in Cleveland now, and travels throughout the world, performing and teaching. Antonio Pompa-Baldi plays an Impromptu by Schubert and music by the little-known Italian composer Giuseppe Martucci. *** Schubert: Impromptu, Op. 142 No. 3 Martucci: Fantasia, Op. 51 Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano +++ More info: http://www.pompa-baldi.com/ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Perf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan play Chopin Chopin is best known for his brilliant, inventive and emotional compositions for solo piano. He rarely attempted chamber music, and created only one piece for two instruments - this Sonata for piano and cello. Some think that when wrote this he was contemplating his recent breakup with Aurore Dudevant, the novelist who wrote under the pen name of George Sand. The split obviously caused him a great deal of pain, because he died soon after. In any case, what we're left with is a deeply ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Harlem Quartet plays Beethoven The Harlem Quartet, praised for its “panache” by the New York Times, is now the resident ensemble in the New England Conservatory’s Professional String Quartet program. Its mission to advance diversity in classical music and engage young audiences is enhanced by exciting and inspirational performances wherever they play. Here they are with the first Quartet Beethoven ever wrote, his Opus 18 No. 3. *** Beethoven: String Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3 Harlem Quartet +++ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kim Kashkashian and friends play Bach Kim Kashkashian and her musical friends were musing one day about the state of the world and what practical things they might be able to do as musicians, to help those in our own community who are most in need. And that's how the idea of "Music for Food" was born, with proceeds from concerts going to the Greater Boston Food Bank. Concerts take place each month at Emmanuel Church in Boston. Here are a couple of Trio Sonatas by Bach, originally for organ, played by Kim and her colleagu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lionheart sings medieval music for the season Lionheart recreates the sounds of medieval England at Christmastide, with works by anonymous composers. From a live-to-air performance. *** Anonymous: Nowell, nowell; Hayl Mary, ful of grace; Venter Tuus; As I outrode this endres night; Hic est discipulus; Worcept we this holy day; Lully lulla...o sisters too; Nowel, nowel...owt of your slepe aryse. Lionheart: John Olund; Daniel Clark Smith; Lawrence Lipnik; Jefrey Johnson; Richard Porterfield; Kurt Owen-Richard. +++ More information: http ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marina Lomazov plays Chopin Marina Lomazov was called "a mesmerizing risk taker" by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and that's exactly the quality you'll hear in this performance of Chopin's "Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise." *** Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, Op. 22 Marina Lomazov, piano +++ More information at http://www.marinalomazov.com/ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on February 4th, 2010. ©2010 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Marchionda plays Albeniz and Scarlatti American Guitarist Stephen Marchionda lives in Spain, but he stopped in at our studio on his way through Boston this week. There's a lot going on in Stephen's life: he's just released a new CD of music by Scarlatti on the MDG label, and he'll be featured this month in a concert celebrating the life of the 21st century English composer Nicholas Maw. *** Albeniz: Mallorca Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor, K. 213 Stephen Marchionda, guitar +++ More information at http://www.ste ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Kobrin plays Schumann Robert Schumann must have been thinking of his beloved Clara as he composed these Fantasy Pieces, Op.12. We hear three of them, performed by Van Cliburn Competition winner Alexander Kobrin. *** Schumann, Robert: from Fantasy Pieces (“Fantasiestücke), Op. 12: No. 3 “Warum?”(Why?); No. 5 “In der Nacht” (Night); No. 7 “Traumes Wirren” (Dream visions). Alexander Kobrin, piano +++ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yevgeny Kutik and Timothy Bozarth play Franck Violinist Yevgeny Kutik is at the beginning of an illustrious career, having recently graduated with his master's degree from the New England Conservatory. He has already received accolades for his appearance this year with the WDR Radio Symphony Orchestra of Cologne and he'll make his New York recital debut next week. He performs Franck with pianist Tim Bozarth *** Franck: Sonata in A major for violin and piano Yevgeny Kutik, violin; Timothy Bozarth, piano +++ More info: http://www ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Campbell and Marc-André Hamelin play Brahms In the early 1880's Brahms decided he would never compose music again. But when he heard clarinetist Richard Meulfeld, he couldn't resist taking up his pen for a few more pieces, written especially for this consumate artist. One result was the Clarinet Sonata in F minor. *** Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1 James Campbell, clarinet; Marc-André Hamelin, piano +++ More info: http://www.gamisim.com/artist/jamescampbell/ and http://marcandrehame ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Campbell introduces the Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Clarinetist James Campbell and pianist Marc-André Hamelin in conversation with 99.5 All-Classical host Cathy Fuller, about the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1, by Johannes Brahms. *** Interview +++ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on October 20th, 2010. ©2010 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boston Chamber Music Society plays Saint-Saens Camille Saint-Saens was a representative of some of the newest trends in the musical world of Paris in the 19th century. He introduced the music of Bach and Handel, and played pieces by Robert Schumann, unheard-of at the time, on his recitals. The Boston Chamber Music Society plays his Piano Quartet in B-flat. *** Saint-Saens: Piano Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 41 The Boston Chamber Music Society +++ Harumi Rhodes, violin; Roger Tapping, viola; Michael Reynolds, cello; Randall Hodgkinson ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Musica Pacifica plays 17th Century Music from Britain Musica Pacifica helps us imagine what music-making was like in Baroque-era England, with lively pieces that sound a lot like folk music! *** Anon/Johnson:  A Jacobean Masque; Locke:  Suite No. 4 in C major, from Broken Consort, Part 1; Purcell:  Three Parts Upon a Ground Musica Pacifica +++ Musica Pacifica is:  Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Elizabeth Blumenstock and Janet Strauss, violins; David Morris, viola da gamba; and Charles Sherman, harpsichord   Recorded in a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ya-Fei Chuang plays Chopin Franz Liszt called Chopin's Preludes “...poetic preludes, analogous to those of a great contemporary poet, who cradles the soul in golden dreams..."  Ya-Fei Chuang is known in North America, Europe and Asia as a pianist of stunning virtuosity and communicative power.  She has performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, National Philharmonic Hall Warsaw and at Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall in Boston. *** Chopin:  24 Preludes, Op. 28 Ya-Fei Chuang, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Musicians of the Old Post Road play Telemann The Musicians of the Old Post Road present early music in historic settings along the Old Post Road, which was the main road linking Boston and New York in the 18th century.  So it's entirely appropriate that we hear them play music from possibly the most famous composer in Europe in the 18th century, Georg Phillip Telemann. *** Telemann:  Paris Quartet No. 6 in E minor Musicians of the Old Post Road +++ Suzanne Stumpf, traverso; Sarah Darling, violin; Daniel Ryan, cello; Michael ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Kobrin plays Haydn The Auenbrugger sisters, 18th century patrons of the arts in Vienna, must have been amazing keyboard players, because it takes quite a bit of technique to play this piece Haydn composed for them in 1780.  We hear it played by the Russian virtuoso Alexander Kobrin, in our Fraser Performance Studio. *** Haydn: Sonata No. 37 in D major, Hob.XVI: 37 Alexander Kobrin, piano +++ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 8th, 2010. ©2010 WGBH Educational Fou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Discovery Ensemble plays Bach Bach didn't often write music in a "lighter" vein, but when called upon, he came up with something really brilliant.  This piece was premiered at Zimmerman's Coffee House in Leipzig in 1931, probably by a group of young musicians - not too much different from the Discovery Ensemble, conducted  in our studio in 2010 by Courtney Lewis. *** Bach:  Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 The Discovery Ensemble; Courtney Lewis, conductor +++ http://www.discoveryensem ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yura Lee and Blaise Dejardin play Kodaly Zoltan Kodaly spent a lot of time traveling through Transylvania in the early 1910's, collecting folksong melodies.  Kodaly then infused his own compositions with the sound of the folk music he collected.  A great example of his folk/classical style is the Duo for Violin and Cello. *** Kodaly:  Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 (1914) Yura Lee, violin; Blaise Dejardin, cello +++ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on May 21st, 2010. ©2010 WGBH Educational Foundati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website St. Lawrence Quartet plays Haydn Haydn's string quartets are great examples of his sense of humor, and this one is no exception, as played by the St. Lawrence Quartet.  *** Haydn:  String Quartet in C major, Op. 54 No. 2 St. Lawrence String Quartet +++ Goeff Nuffall and Scott St. John, violins; Lesley Robertson, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello More information:  http://slsq.com/   Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 19th, 2010. ©2010 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exsultemus sings Ensaladas by Mateo Flecha Exsultemus Period Vocal Ensemble brings “Ensaladas of Mateo Flecha”, celebrating music of the Iberian Peninsula. This fascinating collection of pieces for four and five voices mixes humor, Biblical verse, and dance rhythms to create rousing miniature masterpieces that were among the most popular music of 16th-century  Spain. *** Flecha:  La Bomba; El Fuego; La Negrina Exsultemus Period Vocal Ensemble +++ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April 13th, 2010. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bion Tsang and Anton Nel play Schumann and Chopin Cellist Bion Tsang and pianist Anton Nel came to the Fraser studio recently to help celebrate the 200th birthdays of Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann. *** Schumann:  Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70; Chopin:  Polonaise Brillante in C major, Op.3 Bion Tsang, cello; Anton Nel, piano +++ More info:  http://biontsang.com/ and http://www.antonnel.com/   Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April 8th, 2010. ©2010 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/cl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc-André Hamelin plays Liszt The Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt is not something to be taken up lightly by any pianist - even Marc-André Hamelin waited many years before tackling this major work of the literature. Liszt himself only ever played it privately for a few friends, including Brahms, who didn't like it much.  Wagner, on the other hand, was enraptured by it. *** Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano +++ More info:  http://www.colbertartists.com/artistbio.asp?ID=30 Recorded ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boston Trio plays Smetana Bedrich Smetana lived through immense personal tragedy between 1854 and 1856:  Three of his four daughters died in that period, and his wife died a few years later.  As a way of coping with his grief, he sat down to write this Piano Trio. *** Smetana:  Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 Boston Trio +++ Heng-Jin Park, piano; Irina Muresanu, violin; Allison Eldredge, cello More information:  http://www.bostontrio.com/ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 16th, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Kobrin plays Chopin Pianist Alexander Kobrin, winner of the 2005 Van Cliburn competition, gives a characteristically Russian reading of three Chopin Impromptus in this performance from our Fraser Performance Studio. *** Chopin:  Impromptus - No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29; No. 2 in F-sharp major, Op. 36; No. 3 in G-flat major, Op. 51 Alexander Kobrin, piano +++ Recorded at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 8th, 2010. ©2010 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: class ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chiara Quartet plays Beethoven - More! For some musicians, there was just one piece of music that moved them to take up music as a profession.  For Jonah Sirota, violist for the Chiara Quartet, it was the "Heiliger Dankgesang" from Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15. *** Beethoven:  from String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132, the third movement, Adagio - "Heiliger Dankgesang". Chiara String Quartet +++ Rebecca Fischer, Julie Yoon violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello More info:  ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chiara Quartet plays Beethoven The Chiara String Quartet are Blodgett Artists in Residence at Harvard University, and they've been performing all the Beethoven Quartets in a Series of concerts just across the river from us, in Cambridge, MA.  Here they are with one of them - the first Quartet Beethoven wrote. *** Beethoven:  String Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3 Chiara String Quartet +++ Rebecca Fischer, Julie Yoon violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello More info:  http://www.chiaraquartet.n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Far Cry plays Tchaikovsky The Fraser Performance Studio rings to the sound of A Far Cry in this performance of Tchaikovsky's Sextet, "Souvenir de Florence".  A Far Cry is a Boston string ensemble that performs without a conductor, standing up.  Read more about the group on its website:  http://www.afarcry.org/. *** Tchaikovsky:  String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70, "Souvenir de Florence". A Far Cry (string ensemble) +++ More info:  http://www.afarcry.org/   Recorded at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nikolaj Znaider plays Kreisler Fritz Kreisler was known as one of the most expressive violinists of his generation, and also for the sweet sound of his violin.  The young Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider plays on Kreisler's violin, a Guarnerius "del Gesu" 1741 and makes it sing beautifully again, in this performance of a few of Kreisler's miniatures. *** Kreisler:  LIebesleid; Tempo di minuetto in the style of Pugnani; Andantino in the style of Martini; Schön Rosmarin. Nikolaj Znaider, violin; De ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lise de la Salle plays Mozart and Chopin 21-year-old French pianist Lise de la Salle’s playing is so inspiring that The Washington Post wrote, “For much of the concert, the audience had to remember to breathe...the exhilaration didn’t let up for a second until her hands came off the keyboard.”  She played Mozart and Chopin for us in the Fraser Performance Studio. *** Mozart:  Fantasy in D minor, K.397; Chopin:  Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23. Lise de la Salle, piano +++ More info about Lise ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irina Muresanu and the New England String Ensemble play Hubay and Sarasate Remembering our orchestral debut!  Here's the first live performance from our new Fraser Performance Studio, back in September 2007, featuring the New England String Ensemble and violinist Irina Muresanu playing Hubay and Sarasate.  Until then, we had been unable to feature a string orchestra because we just didn't  have the space, but now we do! *** Hubay:  Czardas Scene No. 2 and Sarasate:  Zigeunerweisen Irina Muresanu, violin; New England String Ensemble, Federi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ina Zdorovetchi plays Scarlatti and Bach Ina Zdorovetchi was a prizewinner in the Israel Harp Competition last summer, and to celebrate her achievement, we invited her to perform for the radio audience from the Fraser Performance Studio. *** Scarlatti, Domenico:  Andante, K.380 in E major and Allegro, K.198 in E minor. Bach, J.S.:  from Suite in C minor, BWV.997:  Prelude, Sarabande, Gigue. Ina Zdorovetchi, harp. +++ More information:  http://www.inazdorovetchi.com/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boston Chamber Music Society plays Brahms In the summer of 1865, Brahms escaped his busy life in Vienna and rented rooms in the ancient German spa town of Baden Baden.  That's where he came up with this beautiful Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano in E flat major. *** Brahms:  Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano in E flat major, Op. 40 Jonathan Crow, violin; William Purvis, French horn; Mihae Lee, piano +++ More information:  http://bostonchambermusic.org/   Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Stu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie Scolnik and Mistral play Telemann Telemann has to be the most productive composer of the Baroque era.  The man was a powerhouse, and he wrote for every solo instrument he came across.  This piece was probably inspired by the visit of Louis Bouffardin, a virtuoso on the transverse flute. *** Telemann:  Suite for flute and strings in A minor. Julie Scolnik, flute, with the ensemble Mistral +++ More information:  http://www.andoverchambermusic.org/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sergei Schepkin plays Bach Sergei Schepkin has been getting accolades for years about his performances of the music of Bach.  According to Fanfare magazine, "No one who loves Bach can afford not to listen to these performances".  He has several CDs available on the Ongaku label.  Here's a sample of his Bach interpretations from two separate performances in our studio. *** Bach:  Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp minor from Book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier; and Bach:  Partita No. 5 in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Haldon Martinson plays Mozart Mozart was on the road a lot as a young man, and some of his best pieces were written during his stopovers in various towns along the way.  He wrote this Sonata in Mannheim, during a trip to Paris with his mother in 1778. *** Mozart:  Sonata for violin and piano in G major, K.301 Haldon Martinson, violin; Sally Pinkas, piano +++ More info: Haldan Martinson: http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/bios_detail.jsp?id=1700055 Sally Pinkas: http://sally.hirsch-pinkas.org/ Recorded in a live broad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sergio Fiorentino plays Chopin Legendary pianist Sergio Fiorentino was struck with an injury which kept him from performing for many years.  It was only late in his life that he was able to recover from it, and we were lucky enough to capture this performance a few months before he passed away in 1998. *** Chopin:  Ballade No. 4 in F minor Sergio Fiorentino, piano +++ Recorded in a live broadcast in WGBH's Studio One on April 14th, 1998. ©2009 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical ema ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peggy Pearson and Katherine Chi play Haydn Oboist Peggy Pearson has a knack for bringing together some of the finest musicians for her Winsor Music Chamber Series, performing concerts in the Boston area.  Here she joins the Canadian virtuoso pianist Katherine Chi to play a Sonata in G by Haydn, an arrangement of his String Quartet, Op. 77 No. 1. *** Haydn:  Sonata in G Peggy Pearson, oboe; Katherine Chi, piano +++ More information:  http://www.winsormusic.org/ Recorded in a live broadcast in WGBH's Fraser Performance ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inna Faliks plays Beethoven and Pasternak Nobody really knows what Beethoven's improvisations sounded like, but this Fantasy gives a rare glimpse into the  inventive mind of the master, as he put music together on the spot, at the piano. Eventually this was written down as his Op. 77.  As bonus, Inna Faliks plays a couple of Preludes by the composer, poet and novelist, Boris Pasternak. *** Beethoven:  Fantasy, Op. 77.  Pasternak:  Two Preludes (1906) Inna Faliks, piano +++ Recorded in a live broadcast in WG ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aldo Abreu plays Anonymous music from Mexico This anonymous composer wrote some beautiful tunes.  Too bad we have no idea who he or she was!  These pieces dating from around 1750 were discovered in the Mexico City Cathedral.  Aldo Abreu has arranged them for recorder and basso continuo. *** Anonymous (Mexico City Cathedral, 1750):  Sonatas; Salaverde:  Canzona Segunda. Aldo Abreu, recorders; Peter Sykes, harpsichord; Sarah Freiburg, cello +++ More info:  http://www.hunsteinartists.com/artists/abreu.html R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Narek Hakhnazaryan plays Beethoven Beethoven's friend the Baron Ignaz von Gleichenstein was the lucky dedicatee of this beautiful Sonata for cello and piano.  Beethoven must have had a lot of respect for the cello-playing Baron, because he gave him the first notes of the theme to play without any accompaniment! *** Beethoven:  Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello; Noreen Cassidy-Polera, piano. +++ More info:  http://www.yca.org/hakhnazaryan.html Recorded in a live broad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roberto Plano performs Liszt's Petrarch Sonnets Franz Liszt was captivated by the poetry of the 14th century humanist, Petrarch, who wrote ardent love poetry in honor of a woman he hardly knew, named Laura.  Liszt thought of these pieces as his own sonnets in honor of his beloved Marie, the Countess Marie D'Agoult. *** Liszt:  Three Sonnets of Petrarch. Roberto Plano, piano +++ More information:  http://www.robertoplano.com/ Recorded in a live broadcast in WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on September 10th, 2009. ©200 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Raphael Popper-Keizer and Gloria Chien play Debussy Debussy planned to write six sonatas before he died, for various combinations of instruments, but only got around to writing three before he died of colon cancer.  This Cello Sonata is the first one he finished.  He originally wanted to call it "Pierrot angry with the moon", refering to the unhappy clown character in Commedia dell'arte theater.  You can imagine PIerrot in this music: whimsical and funny, but occasionally revealing an undercurrent of sadness. *** Deb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacifica String Quartet performs Mendelssohn Mendelssohn used his own song as a theme throughout this beautiful string quartet.  It asks the question, “Is it true that you wait for me each evening under the arbor – that you ask the moon and the stars about me? Is it true?  Oh, tell me!” *** Mendelssohn, Felix:  String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 130 Pacifica String Quartet +++ Simin Ganatra, violin; Sibbi Bernhardsson, violin; Masumi Per Rostad, viola;  Brandon Vamos, cello More info:  http ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fenwick Smith and John Gibbons play C.P.E. Bach During the 1750’s, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was a musician in the court of Frederick the Great, the king of Prussia.  In addition to being a shrewd and powerful king, Frederick was quite an accomplished flutist, so it’s not surprising that most of C.P.E. Bach’s flute compositions come from this period.  Sonatas like this one show off the beauty of the flute, of course, but they also serve as showcases for the art of the keyboard &n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roberto Plano plays Liszt Franz Liszt was deeply inspired by the landscape, music and culture of Italy, where he went for a while in the 1830’s with his lover and the mother of his three children, Marie d’Agoult.  The result of these travels was his Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage), in two sets of pieces published several years later.  These three pieces were published as a supplement to the Second Year. *** Liszt:  Venezia e Napoli Roberto Plano, piano +++ More i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sabrina Learman sings Falla - WGBH Classical Performance Manuel de Falla spent the years before World War I in Paris, and that's where he befriended Debussy and Ravel. Before returning to Spain in 1914, he put together these brilliant song settings, using natural overtones in the accompaniment, rather than traditional modal scales. It's performed by members of the Chameleon Ensemble.***Falla: Seven Spanish FolksongsSabrina Learman, soprano; Christopher Guzman, piano+++Titles of Manuel de Falla's Seven Spanish Folksongs: El Paño Moruno; Sequi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David McCarroll and Dina Vainshtein play Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance All his life, Robert Schumann had to manage two different personalities within himself. He even gave them names: Eusebius (his melancholy nature) and Florestan (his passionate side). In his literary work he would often refer to them and write from their different points of view. In his Violin Sonatas, you can hear both Eusebius and Florestan, holding forth! This is the first of a series - next week: Sonata No. 2.***Schumann, Robert: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano in A minor, Op. 10 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Janina Fialkowska plays Chopin - WGBH Classical Performance When Chopin was a teenager, he witnessed peasants dancing the Mazurka, the triple-time dance popular in the countryside of his native Poland. It must have made quite an impression, because he wrote over 50 Mazurkas for the piano, using it as a way to express a longing for his homeland. We hear three of them played by Janina Fialkowska.***Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 41 No. 1, Op. 32 No. 2, Op. 59 No. 1; Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20.Janina Fialkowska, piano+++More info about Janina Fialkowsk ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Haldan Martinson and Sally Pinkas play Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance Robert Schumann was not happy with his first Violin Sonata, composed in September of 1851, so he sat down and wrote another one, and finished it in October. But he must have had misgivings about this second one as well, because it wasn't published until two years later! This is some of Robert Schumann's most compelling music. We hear it played by Haldan Martinson, with Sally Pinkas at the piano.***Schumann, Robert: Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano in D minor, Op. 121.Haldan Martinson, v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leslie Howard plays Glazunov - WGBH Classical Performance Pianist Leslie Howard has an affinity for the late romantic composers - he's known best for his 97-disc survey of all the piano music of Franz Liszt. When he visited our Fraser Performance Studio, he played a little-known Sonata by Alexander Glazunov.***Glazunov: Sonata No.1 in B-flat minor, Op.74Leslie Howard, piano+++More information athttp://lesliehowardpianist.com/.Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, January 29, 2008.WGBH Classical Performance is a produc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Helena Winkelman and Anton Kernjak play Brahms Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann had a special relationship - there's no denying it.  Brahms wrote to his friend Joachim, "I often have to restrain myself forcibly from just quietly putting my arm around her..."  As for Clara, when she played his G major Violin Sonata, she wrote to Brahms, "...I could not help bursting into tears of joy over it."  There's no evidence of hanky-panky between them, but let's face it - he was head-over-heels in love! ** ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Borromeo String Quartet plays Bach Nicholas Kitchen, first violinist with the Borromeo String Quartet, grew up with the sound of the pipe organ ringing in his ears - his father was an organist - so he developed a great love for the keyboard music of Bach.  Here are a couple of Bach's works he has arranged. *** J.S. Bach (arr. Nicholas Kitchen) Passacaglia and Fugue for Organ in C minor, BWV 582. Borromeo String Quartet +++ Nicholas Kitchen, violin; Kristopher Tong, violin; Mai Motobuchi, viola; Yeesun Kim, cello More in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dominique LaBelle sings Saint Saens Saint Saens is best known for large-scale works like the Carnival of the Animals or the orchestral version of Danse Macabre, but you might not know that he wrote a large number of songs during his lifetime.  Here are five of them, performed by Soprano Dominque LaBelle and pianist/composer Yehudi Wyner. *** Saint Saens:  Five Songs:  Aimons-nous; L'attente; La Coccinelle; Tournoiement; Danse Macabre. Dominique LaBelle, soprano; Yehudi Wyner, piano. +++ More information:  ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Borromeo String Quartet plays Beethvoen Vienna was under attack in  in 1809 when Beethoven composed this in 1809, but you won't hear it in the music.  It was a publisher who gave it the nickname, "Harp" because of the effect of pizzicatto strings in the first movement. *** Beethoven:  String Quartet No.10 in E flat, Op.74 "Harp" Borromeo String Quartet. +++  Nicholas Kitchen, violin; William Fedkenheuer, violin; Mai Motobuchi, viola; Yeesun Kim, cello More information at http://www.borrome ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christina Day Martinson plays Biber - WGBH Classical Performance It was a baroque-era multi-media show! Heinrich Biber was a Jesuit musician who loved the sound of stringed instruments, and wrote fifteen sonatas to accompany the contemplation of the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary. They were meant to be heard as worshipers gazed at 15 paintings and meditated on 15 written texts about the mysteries. We hear three of them in this performance. *** Biber: Rosary Sonatas, Nos. IV, V, and VII. Christina Day Martinson, violin; Martin Pearlman, harpsichord + ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Susie Park plays Mozart and Bach - WGBH Classical Performance Mozart understood what it was like to be unemployed. One of the places he went to look for a job was Mannheim, the home of the greatest orchestra in the world at that time. That's where he made friends with Karl Theodor, the Elector of the town, and his wife, Maria Elisabeth. He was so friendly with Maria Elisabeth that she even taught him how to knit! And he dedicated his "Mannheim" Sonatas to her. This is the first of the six Sonatas. *** Mozart: Sonata for piano and violin in G maj ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boston Chamber Music Society plays Schubert - WGBH Classical Performance Schubert went wandering in the Alps in the summer of 1819, on a lighthearted excursion with his friend Johann Michael Vogl, and came up with some lighthearted music. "The Trout" Quintet was commissioned by Sylvester Paumgartner, who Schubert met in Steyr, a little town that Schubert described as "inconceivably lovely". Paumgartner stipulated that the Quintet had to include some variations on Schubert's own song, "Die Forelle" ("The Trout"). You'll hear those variations in the third moveme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ya-Fei Chuang plays Mendelssohn - WGBH Classical Performance In these exquisite parlour pieces, Mendelssohn wanted to prove that music can say more by itself than it can with a text to go with it. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but music, according to this composer, "..fills the soul with a thousand things better than words." *** Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words (a selection) Ya-Fei Chuang, piano +++ Op. 19 No. 1 in E major; Op. 62 No. 5 in A minor (Venetian Gondola Song); Op. 102 No. 5 in A major; Op. 30 No. 6 in F-sharp minor; Op. 85 No ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Harlem Quartet plays Ravel - WGBH Classical Performance The Harlem Quartet is on a mission to advance diversity in classical music, and they do that with stylish performances of a wide variety of repertoire. We heard "Take the A Train", portions of a new piece by Wynton Marsalis, and this stunning performance of Ravel's String Quartet in F major. (For the entire performance, go to http://wgbh.org/classical/.) *** Ravel: String Quartet in F major Harlem Quartet +++ Ilmar Gavilan, violin; Melissa White, violin; Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola; Des ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hugo Wolf Quartet plays Haydn - WGBH Classical Performance Franz Joseph Haydn wrote this delightful Opus 77 string quartet in 1799, the same year the young Beethoven came out with his amazing Opus 18 quartets. And then Haydn quietly stopped writing string quartets altogether. Was it because he felt he had met his equal? We'll never know, but this quartet is still enchanting. *** Haydn: String Quartet in G major, Op. 77 No. 2 Hugo Wolf String Quartet +++ Sebastian Gürtler, violin; Régis Bringolf, violin; Gertrud Weinmeister, viola; Florian Bern ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ensemble Zefiro plays Lotti and Vivaldi - WGBH Classical Performance This week the Classical Performance goes "on location" at the Boston Early Music Festival, for music by Antonio Lotti and Antonio Vivaldi, played by the Ensemble Zefiro, recorded in concert at Jordan Hall, at the New England Conservatory. This was from a glorious concert called "Winds of the Serenissima", featuring early 18th century Italian music for winds and strings. *** Lotti: Echo Sonata a 4 in F major Vivaldi: Sonata a 4 in C major, RV 801 Ensemble Zefiro; Alfredo Bernardini, direc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacifica String Quartet plays Mendelssohn - WGBH Classical Performance For a musician in the 19th century, Mendelssohn had about the happiest life you could imagine. It's just that it was so darn short! Here's music from the period of his blissful marriage to Cecile Jeanrenaud. *** Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2 Pacifica String Quartet +++ Simin Ganatra, violin; Sibbi Bernhardsson, violin; Masumi Per Rostad, viola; Brandon Vamos, cello More information, including how to purchase the Pacifica's recordings of all the Mendelssohn St ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Markus Schirmer and A Far Cry play Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance When Mozart finished writing three piano concertos in 1782, he was very pleased with himself. In a December 1782 letter to his father he wrote, “These concertos are a happy medium between too heavy and too light. They are very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural, without being insipid." We hear one of them, K. 414 in A major, played by the new conductor-less string ensemble, A Far Cry, performing in our studio with the Austrian pianist Markus Schirmer. *** Mozart: Piano Concert ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Korsantia and Yelena Beriyeva play Mozart Pianist Alexander Korsantia and his student Yelena Beriyeva make a marvelous duo - Both are originally from the Republic of Georgia, and now are teacher and student, respectively, at the New England Conservatory. Their interpretation of Mozart’s D major piano duo is nothing short of brilliant. *** Mozart: Sonata for two pianos in D major, K.448. Alexander Korsantia, Yelena Beriyeva, pianos. +++ More information: http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/faculty/korsantiaA.html Recorded in a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Lewin plays Liszt, Lewin and Saint-Saens - WGBH Classical Performance Michael Lewin has been collecting piano pieces inspired by birds, and he plays some of them for us, in this live-to-air performance at the Fraser studio. *** Saint Saens: The Swan; Trad., arr. Michael Lewin: Turkey in the Straw; Alabieff, arr. Liszt: The Nightingale; Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1. Michael Lewin, piano +++ Watch for Michael Lewin's upcoming CD: "If I Were a Bird". More information at http://www.michaellewin.com/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Crow, Douglas McNabney and Matt Haimovitz play Bach - WGBH Classical Performance Bach's Goldberg Variations are brilliant as keyboard pieces, but you can hear their elaborate detail much more clearly in this remarkable arrangement for String Trio. *** J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV.988. Jonathan Crow, violin; Douglas McNabney, viola; Matt Haimovitz, cello +++ More information: http://oxingale.com/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April 17th, 2009. ©2009 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canons in the Goldberg Variations - WGBH Classical Performance Bach was forever finding new and amazing variations on a beautiful melody. Here's some insight into how he did it, from last week's live performance. *** Jonathan Crow, Douglas McNabney and Matt Haimovitz, in conversation with WGBH's Cathy Fuller. +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April 17th, 2009. ©2009 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yaron Kohlberg plays Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance Robert Schumann was a critic and a composer, and in his words he was often critical of the "Philistines" in music - those who promoted conservative and ordinary talent. He gathered together a group of personalities called the "Davidsbundler", to fight the Philistines, and even wrote this set of intensely personal dances to celebrate this "Band of David". We hear it played by Yaron Kohlberg. *** Schumann, Robert: Davidsbundlertänze, Op. 6. Yaron Kohlberg, piano +++ More info: http://www. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Moet Trio plays Dvorak - WGBH Classical Performance Dvorak sat down to compose his third Piano Trio just a few weeks after his mother passed away in 1882. In some of the passages you can hear how distraught he must have been at the time, but you also hear his amazing gift for melody. *** Dvorak: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65 The Moet Trio +++ The Moet Trio is: Yuri Namkung, violin; Yves Dharamraj, cello; Michael Mizrahi, piano More info: http://moettrio.com/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 4t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andreas Klein talks about Chopin - WGBH Classical Performance Chopin had no personal experience of Italy, but that didn't stop him from imagining the Venetian gondolier's song.***Andreas Klein, in conversation with Cathy Fuller.+++Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 31st, 2009.©2009 WGBH Educational Foundation.http://www.wgbh.org/classicalemail:classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Hill talks about Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance Thomas Hill gives his insights into the meaning of the title of Schumann's"Märchenerzählungen", which is usually translated"Fairy Tales".***Thomas Hill, in conversation with Richard Knisely.+++Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 26th, 2009.©2009 WGBH Educational Foundation.http://www.wgbh.org/classicalemail:classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goran Krivokapic plays Sor and Giuliani - WGBH Classical Performance In the early part of the 19th century, opera was all the rage. All the best tunes came from the opera stage. So when Fernando Sor and Mauro Giuliani each set out to do variations on a theme for solo guitar, they chose their favorite opera tunes. Sor picked a tune from Mozart's"Magic Flute"and Giuliani chose melodies from several Rossini operas. We hear these two pieces played by a young virtuoso guitarist from Montenegro, Goran Krivokapic.***Sor: Introduction and variations on a theme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chiara String Quartet plays Haydn - WGBH Classical Performance Haydn originally wrote his "Seven Last Words of Christ" as an oratorio for the cathedral at the Spanish port city of Cadiz. It was intended to be heard at the Good Friday Service, in between readings and discourses on each of the seven last statements of Christ on the Cross. We hear five movements in this abbreviated version. *** Haydn: Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51 (portion) The Chiara String Quartet +++ I. Introduzione: Maestoso et Adagio. II. Sonata I: Largo - Pater dimitte illis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Auryn Quartet plays Haydn - WGBH Classical Performance In 1781, when Haydn met Mozart, he called him "the greatest composer known to me either in person or reputation." Three years later he became good friends with the younger composer, and joined him in a "string quartet party" at a Viennese apartment. That was also the year (1784) Haydn wrote his Opus 50 Quartets, which - no surprise - bear a striking resemblance to the style of Mozart! Again we have the Auryn String Quartet. *** Haydn: Quartet in F major, Op. 50 No. 5 Auryn String Quarte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Auryn String Quartet plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance Beethoven wrote this first String Quartet after he began to lose his hearing, so it was a time of anxiety and intense feeling for him. He admired the quartets of Haydn and Mozart, but he was also looking ahead with this music, to the Romantic Era. We hear it played by the Auryn Quartet, from Germany. *** Beethoven: Quartet in F major, Op. 18 No. 1. Auryn String Quartet +++ Matthias Lingenfelder, violin; Jens Oppermann, violin; Stewart Eaton, viola; Andreas Arndt, cello. More info: http:/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fumito Nunoya plays Bach - WGBH Classical Performance The Chaconne from Bach's Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin has been adapted for many different instruments. Here's an unusual adaptation, brilliantly played, by marimba soloist Fumito Nunoya, in a live-to-air broadcast from the Fraser. *** Bach, J.S. (arr. F. Nunoya): "Chaconne" from Partita No. 2 for solo violin. Fumito Nunoya, marimba +++ More info: http://www.fumitonunoya.com/en/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on January 28th, 2009. ©2009 WGBH Educational ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chu-Fang Huang plays Haydn and Emanuele Segre plays Giuliani - WGBH Classical Performance Selections from two recent live performances this week: Chinese pianist Chu-Fang Huang, winner of the 2005 Cleveland International Piano Competition, playing Haydn; and Italian guitarist Emanuele Segre, a Pro Musicis artist, playing Giuliani. *** Haydn: Piano Sonata in E major, Hob. XVI/31. Chu-Fang Huang, piano. Giuliani: from "Giulianate" Op. 148, "L'Armonia" and "La Risoluzione". Emanuele Segre, guitar. +++ More info: http://www.emanuelesegre.it/ http://www.chufanghuang.com/ Recorded ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mira Trio plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance One aspect of Mozart's genius was his ability to write light, entertaining pieces and profound, deeply engaging pieces, at the same time! That's what he was doing in 1788 when he was working on his late symphonies as well as lighter pieces like the Piano Trio, K. 564. We'll hear that as well as the early Divertimento, K.254, played by a new Piano Trio, the Mira Trio. *** Mozart: Divertimento in B flat, K.254; Piano Trio in G major, K.564 Mira Trio +++ Mira Trio: Gabriella Diaz, violin; ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blue Heron sings Obrecht and Perotin - WGBH Classical Performance The Renaissance vocal ensemble Blue Heron brings us music for the darkest season of the year, the weeks leading up to Christmas. In the 15th century in northern Europe, this period produced penitential, mystical music. But when Christmas came it was also a time for celebration. We'll hear both these moods in music by Jacob Obrecht and Antoine Brumel, and in some 12th century music by Perotin. *** Obrecht: Factor Orbis; Brumel: Nato canunt omnia; Perotin: Beata viscera; Perotin: Sederu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Borromeo String Quartet plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance Sometimes the bleakest moments in a creative person's life bring out their finest work. That's what it was like for Beethoven in 1810. His marriage proposal to a young woman had just been spurned, and on top of that, he had just learned that his deafness was getting worse, when he sat down to write the "Serioso" String Quartet. *** Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 95 "Serioso" in F minor Borromeo String Quartet +++ More info on the Borromeo: http://www.borromeoquartet.org/ Recorded in a liv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Sommerville plays Strauss and Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance James Sommerville, the acclaimed Principal Horn of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, brings music by Richard Strauss and Ludwig van Beethoven to his first performance in the Fraser Studio. His musical collaborator is Aimee Tsuchiya, at the piano. *** Strauss, Richard: Andante for horn and piano; and Beethoven: Sonata for horn and piano, Op. 17 James Sommerville, horn; Aimee Tsuchiya, piano +++ More info: http://marquisclassics.com/artists/sommerville_bio.html Recorded in a live broadcast at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mistral plays Handel and Vivaldi - WGBH Classical Performance Mistral is a chamber ensemble made up of some of the finest freelance musicians in the Boston area, led by flutist Julie Scolnik. This live-to-air performance featured music by Handel and Vivaldi. *** Handel: Harp Concerto in B-flat major, Op. 4 No. 6, HWV 294; and Vivaldi: Sonata No. 5 in E minor for cello and strings, RV 40. Mistral (chamber ensemble) +++ Soloists: Franziska Huhn, harp (Handel); Jan Muller-Szeraws, cello (Vivaldi). Ensemble: Irina Muresanu, Nurit Pacht, Gabriela Dia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Stoltzman plays Debussy and Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman brought a couple of stunning pieces when he came to visit WGBH's Studio for this live-to-air performance. His musical collaborator here is his son, Peter John Stoltzman, at the piano. *** Debussy: Premiere Rhapsody; and Mozart: Adagio mvt. from Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622. Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Peter John Stoltzman, piano +++ More info: http://www.franksalomon.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=17 Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on March 1st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Stoltzman talks about Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance Richard Stoltzman shares his insights about our modern-day experience of listening to Mozart, with WGBH's Cathy Fuller. *** Richard Stoltzman, in conversation with Cathy Fuller +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on March 1st, 2005. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Minsoo Sohn plays Liszt transcriptions - WGBH Classical Performance Franz Liszt was a great admirer of Bach and Beethoven. His transcriptions of music by these great masters and others, show his devotion, but also his amazing originality. Bach's A minor Prelude and Fugue was originally a pipe organ piece, and Beethoven's "Adelaide" is a charming song, but they each become something entirely new in the hands of Liszt. We hear them played by the brilliant young pianist Minsoo Sohn. *** Bach, J.S., arr. Liszt: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV.543 S462; Bee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Calder Quartet plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance When Mozart's publisher distributed the "Dissonant" Quartet to music dealers, some of them sent the scores back, thinking the rich, expressive close harmonies were mistakes! But as his friend Josef Haydn said, "If Mozart wrote it, he must have meant it." We hear it played in a live performance from the Fraser Performance Studio, by the Calder Quartet. *** Mozart: String Quartet in C major, K.465, "Dissonance" The Calder String Quartet. +++ Benjamin Jacobson, Andrew Bulbrook, violins; Jon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Calder Quartet talks about Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance The Calder String Quartet played the marvelous and mysterious-sounding "Dissonance" Quartet in their live performance here at the Fraser Performance Studio. In conversation with program host Cathy Fuller, they mentioned that they had some great consultations with composer Terry Riley about a piece of his they played. Then they mused about what they would ask Mozart, if they could talk to him in the same way. *** Calder String Quartet, in conversation with WGBH's Cathy Fuller +++ More info ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trio Saltarello (plus one!) plays Bach - WGBH Classical Performance Bach wrote this "Trio Sonata" originally for the pipe organ, to help his son Wilhelm Friedemann perfect his organ technique. But since it is conveniently laid out in three voices (two melody instruments and supporting bass), it's perfect for adaptation to almost any chamber music ensemble, including this one, featuring two recorders with harpsichord and viola da gamba. *** Bach, J.S.: Trio Sonata in F major, BWV. 529 Trio Saltarello (Sarah Cantor, recorder; Angus Lansing, viola da gamba; ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rogert Tapping and Judith Gordon play Brahms - WGBH Classical Performance Brahms was in a melancholy mood at the end of his life. By the 1890's he had given up writing music altogether. But then he met the great clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld, and when he heard his playing, Brahms changed his mind. The result was some of his most inspired chamber music, including this Sonata in E-flat, which Brahms himself transcribed for viola. *** Brahms: Sonata in E-flat, Op. 120, No. 2 Roger Tapping, viola; Judith Gordon, piano. +++ More info: http://www.newenglandconservat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winsor Music plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance Long before he wrote his great Symphonies, Beethoven was a star pianist, and a frequent guest in the homes of the Viennese nobility. They would welcome him to play, and to bring along a new piece of music. Here's one of those offerings, played by members of Boston's Winsor Music. *** Beethoven: Trio in C major, Op. 87 for two Oboes and English Horn Peggy Pearson, oboe; Laura Ahlbeck, oboe; Barbara LaFitte, English horn. +++ More info about Winsor Music at http://www.winsormusic.org/. Rec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website George Li plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance 13-year-old George Li may be small of stature, but he unleashes the full power of the piano, playing with amazing grace and skill. George made a big impression on Boston Philharmonic conductor Ben Zander, who says he has the "usual misgivings" about child prodigies. But George has something special, as you'll hear in this performance of the Moonlight Sonata. *** Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2, "Moonlight". George Li, piano +++ More information on George is at htt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Triple Helix plays Haydn - WGBH Classical Performance This is one of three Piano Trios dedicated to a lady friend of Haydn. Her name was Rebecca Schroeter, and he often went to her house for dinner during his second stay in London, in 1794 and 1795. The music is irresistible, so she must have been pleased! *** Haydn: Trio No. 40 in F-sharp minor, Hob. XV:26 Triple Helix Piano Trio +++ Bayla Keyes, violin; Lois Shapiro, piano; Rhonda Rider, cello More info about Triple Helix at http://www.triplehelixpianotrio.org/. Recorded in a live broadca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roberto Plano plays Schubert - WGBH Classical Performance Podcast Pianist Roberto Plano has a special place in his heart for the music of Franz Schubert - it's obvious when he plays these Impromptus, Op. 142. The name "Impromptu" suggests a sudden burst of inspiration - something spontaneous - and that's exactly the quality you hear when Roberto plays. *** Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 142 Robert Plano, piano +++ More info about Roberto at http://www.robertoplano.com/. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on September 24th, 2008. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roberto Plano introduces Schubert's Impromptus - WGBH Classical Performance Podcast Before Roberto Plano played the Schubert Impromptus, Op. 142, he introduced the audience to these moody pieces, and gave us a guided tour of Number 3 of the set, a Theme with Variations, in B-flat. Here he is in conversation with WGBH's Cathy Fuller. *** Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 142. (Examples and Comments by pianist Roberto Plano) +++ More info about Roberto at http://www.robertoplano.com/. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on September 24th, 2008. ©2008 W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Formosa String Quartet plays Debussy - WGBH Classical Performance The Formosa Quartet came together in 2002 for a memorable two-week tour of Taiwan, and stayed together to develop their unique sound, winning the 2006 London International String Quartet Competition. It was their performance of the Debussy that convinced the jury, and we heard why, in this live broadcast from the Fraser Performance Studio. *** Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op.10. Formosa String Quartet +++ Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Jasmine Lin, violin; Che-Yen Chen, viola; Jacob Braun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Kroll plays François Couperin - WGBH Classical Performance François Couperin, "organist to the King", liked to describe scenes and characters in his harpsichord music. It must have been fun to listen along with Louis XIV and his court, to these little gems. *** Couperin, François: Quatriême Ordre (La Marche des Gris-vètus, Les Baccanales, La Pateline, La Réveil-matin). Mark Kroll, harpsichord. +++ More info about Mark at http://markkroll.com/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on September 9th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sergei Antonov plays Reger and Tchaikovsky - WGBH Classical Performance Max Reger was a great admirer of J.S. Bach's music. He was one of the leading Bach interpreters of his time, and strove to maintain Bach's conventions of harmony, counterpoint and structure. Like Bach, Reger was an organist, and like Bach, he composed beautifully for the solo cello. Sergei Antonov plays a movement from one of Reger's Solo Suites, and then the beautiful "Melodie" by Tchaikovsky. *** Reger: Prelude from 2nd Suite for Solo Cello, Op. 131c; and Tchaikovsky (arr. Antonov): ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hung-Kuan Chen plays Brahms - WGBH Classical Performance Brahms was just one of many composers who were inspired by the captivating melody in Caprice No.24 for Violin by Nicolo Paganini. Hung-Kuan Chen performs the variations in a different order from the original, retaining all the emotional depth, but giving it a slightly more exciting ending. *** Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35 Hung-Kuan Chen, piano +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on August 14th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irina Muresanu plays Brahms - WGBH Classical Performance Podcast Brahms's Third Violin Sonata is as wild and virtuosic as the musicians it was written for - the great violinist Joseph Joachim, and the brilliant pianist and conductor, Hans von Bülow. We hear it played by the Boston virtuosa Irina Muresanu and the Romanian pianist Dana Ciocarlie. *** Brahms: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in D minor, Op. 108 Irina Muresanu, violin; Dana Ciocarlie, piano +++ More info: Irina - http://www.irinamuresanu.com Dana - http://www.andoverchambermusic.org/bioda ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pianist Helene Wickett tackles Beethoven Helene Wickett is tackling all the piano sonatas of Beethoven, and she's come to the second last one, Op. 110 in A flat. Helene thinks the piece may have been intended for Antoni Brentano, Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved" - He marked it "con amabilita", "with affection, warmth, softness". She played it live on Cathy Fuller's "Classics in the Morning". *** Beethoven: Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110 Helene Wickett, piano +++ More info: Look up "Helene Wickett", at http://www.promusici ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newton Baroque plays Mancini - WGBH Classical Performance No, no, not THAT Mancini! I'm talking about Francesco Mancini, the early 18th century Italian, not Henry Mancini, the Academy-award-winning 20th century American. Francesco's music was featured in Newton Baroque's live performance of music written for orphans. *** Mancini, Francesco: Concerto in F major Newton Baroque +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on June 24th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wg ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rockport Chamber Musicians play Richard Strauss - WGBH Classical Performance Strauss was only twenty years old when he wrote this Piano Quartet, so you can hear all the evidence of his early influences: Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms. But you can also hear the beginning of an original talent. We hear it played by performers from the Rockport Chamber Music Festival. *** Strauss, Richard: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13 (1884) David Deveau, piano; Irina Muresanu, violin; Yinzi Kong, viola; Emmanuel Feldman, cello +++ More information about the Rockport Chamber Mu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sergey Antonov and Fedor Veselov play Franck - WGBH Classical Performance Last year's Tchaikovsky Competition Gold Medal winner, celllist Sergey Antonov, stopped by the Fraser Performance Studio the other day. He played Franck, together with a colleague from the Moscow Conservatory, pianist Fedor Veselov. *** Franck: Sonata in A major (1886) Sergey Antonov, cello; Fedor Veselov, piano +++ More information about Sergey is at his website: http://sergeyantonov.com/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on July 9th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newton Baroque plays Vivaldi - WGBH Classical Performance In Antonio Vivaldi's Venice, the orphanage was more than just an orphanage. It was a convent, a school and a conservatory of music as well. As the master violin tutor and chief composer from 1713 to 1740, Vivaldi taught and wrote music for some of the finest young players in the city. Here are two of the pieces he composed, played by Newton Baroque. *** Vivaldi: Concerto for recorder in C minor, RV 441 and Concerto for violin in F major, Op. 4 No. 9 Newton Baroque +++ Sarah Cantor, reco ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ensemble Schumann plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance Mozart had a busy social life. He loved to spend evenings with his friends, Gottfried and Fanziska von Jacquin - making music together, having discussions, and playing games like skittles, or "Kegelstatt". One of the pieces he wrote to be performed at the Jacquin house was this Trio, originally for clarinet, viola and piano, with the composer himself playing the viola. In Ensemble Schumann's performance, the clarinet is replaced by an oboe. *** Mozart: Trio in E-flat major, K.498, "Kege ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mimi Stillman plays Bach and Gill - WGBH Classical Performance Podcast J.S. Bach's Flute Sonata in G minor is one of the best-loved works for the flute. But it turns out he wasn't even the composer of this piece! It was probably written by his son, C.P.E. Bach, harpsichordist in the court of the flutist and king, Frederic the Great. Our second work, "Parabasis", is very clearly identified as the work of Jeremy Gill, the pianist on this program. *** Bach, C.P.E. (attrib. J.S. Bach): Sonata in G minor for flute and continuo (BWV.1020), and Jeremy Gill: Three ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Parker String Quartet Plays Dvorak - WGBH Classical Performance Podcast Dvorak's radiant String Quartet in E-flat exudes joy, coming from the pen of a contented composer. Things were going well for the Czech master in 1851: his daughter was born that year, and he had just had great success with his first set of Slavonic Dances. There's a Slavonic feel to this quartet too, and the Parker Quartet captured it perfectly in this performance. *** Dvorak: String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.51 The Parker String Quartet +++ I. Allegro ma non troppo; II. Dumka: Anda ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicolas Dautricourt and Michael Mizrahi play Schubert - WGBH Classical Performance Schubert wrote his C major violin Fantasy for a young Bohemian virtuoso, Josef Slavik, who became one of his most trusted chamber music partners. We'll hear it played by the modern-day French virtuoso Nicolas Dautricourt, with Michael Mizrahi at the piano. *** Schubert: Fantasia in C major for violin and piano, D.934 Nicolas Dautricourt, violin; Michael Mizrahi, piano +++ I. Andante molto; II. Allegretto; III. Andantino; IV. Tempo I; V. Allegro vivace; VI. Allegretto; VII. Presto; Recor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu play Saint-Saëns - WGBH Classical Performance "The two Jons" each have successful solo careers, but when they come together as a clarinet and piano duo, it's really something wonderful. They play the lyrical Clarinet Sonata, composed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1921. *** Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata in E-flat major, Op.167 (1921) Jon Manasse, clarinet; Jon Nakamatsu, piano +++ More info at http://www.parkerartists.com/NewPages/manasse-nakamatsu-duo.html Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on May 23rd, 2008. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ying String Quartet plays Mendelssohn - WGBH Classical Performance The Ying Quartet started out its professional career in Jesup, Iowa - a town of 2000 people - as its String Quartet in Residence, integrating music into small town community life. Today they are continuing their tradition of community music-making at the Eastman School of Music and at Harvard University. On their visit to WGBH they brought this exuberant D major Quartet by Mendelssohn. *** Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 44 No. 1 Ying String Quartet +++ I. Molto allegr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Moet Trio plays Ravel - WGBH Classical Performance The Moet Trio is the first ensemble to participate in the New England Conservatory's Professional Piano Trio Training Program - this is quite an honor for the group, and it's well-deserved, as you'll hear in this performance of Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor. *** Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor (1914) Moet Trio +++ Yuri Namkung, violin; Yves Dharamraj, cello; Michael Mizrahi, piano More information about the trio at https://www.newamsterdamrecords.com/#Moet_Trio Recorded in a live broadcast at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ensemble Caprice plays Gypsy music of the Baroque - WGBH Classicalb The Canadian early music group Ensemble Caprice has been exploring "Gypsy Music" as collected by European scholars and composers in the 17th and 18th centuries, and they've come up with a lively mix! Here's music by Diego Ortiz, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and Andrea Falconieri. *** Ortiz: Recercada primera; Schmelzer: Balletto La bella zingara; and Falconieri: La Suave Melodia and La Follia. Ensemble Caprice +++ Matthias Maute, recorder and flute; Sophie Larivière, recorder and flute; ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leslie Howard plays Rachmaninov and Borodin - WGBH Classical Performance Leslie Howard is one of the foremost interpreters of late romantic piano music, and we were thrilled that he could come to play at WGBH. We'll hear music by Borodin and Rachmaninov. *** Borodin/Howard: Scherzo from Petite Suite (1885); and Rachmaninov: Three Pieces (1917). Leslie Howard, piano Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, January 29, 2008. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. http://www.wgbh.org/classical. email: classical@ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leslie Howard talks about Rachmaninov - WGBH Classical Performance Leslie Howard brings us the dramatic background to Rachmaninov's "Three Pieces" of 1917, in conversation with "Classics in the Morning" host Cathy Fuller. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, January 29, 2008. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. http://www.wgbh.org/classical. email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephanie Jutt and Jeffrey Sykes play Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance This is the lighter side of Beethoven: a delightful serenade, adapted by the composer from his own Serenade for Flute and Strings. Stephanie Jutt and Jeffrey Sykes are presented in their Boston recital this week by the Pro Musicis Foundation, http://promusicis.org/. *** Beethoven: Serenade for Flute and Piano, Op.41 Stephanie Jutt, flute; Jeffrey Sykes, piano +++ More information: http://www.bachdancinganddynamite.org/artists/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance St ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hélène Wickett plays Ravel - WGBH Classical Performance Maurice Ravel was a great admirer of Franz Schubert's music, and the "Valses nobles et sentimentales" are his tribute. Nonetheless this work has Ravel's unmistakable signature sound. The pianist in our live broadcast is Hélène Wickett. *** Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales Hélène Wickett, piano +++ More info: Look up "Hélène Wickett", at http://www.promusicis.org/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 25th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website La Donna Musicale plays Bon The ensemble La Donna Musicale champions the works of women composers from the baroque, classical and contemporary periods. In this live broadcast they focus on the music of Anna Bon (1739/40-????). *** Bon: Flute Sonata IV, and "Astra Coeli" La Donna Musicale +++ La Donna Musicale: Na'ama Lion, flute; Sherezade Panthaki, soprano; Gigi Turgeon, violin; Ruth McKay, harpsichord; Laury Gutierrez, viola da gamba and Artistic Director. More info: http://www.ladm.org/ Recorded in a live broad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heng-Jin Park plays Schumann and Liszt - WGBH Classical Performance Robert Schumann's first published piece is a bit mysterious - It's called "Variations on the name Abegg", but whose name is it? An imaginary character dreamed up by the composer? Or a countess he was in love with for a time? We may never know the answer to the puzzle, but it's a fine piano work, played here by Heng-Jin Park. We also hear Liszt's "Gnomenreigen", the "Round Dance of the Gnomes". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger Tapping and Judith Gordon play Bach - WGBH Classical Performance Violist Roger Tapping and pianist Judith Gordon get into a wonderful groove in this performance of the third of Bach's Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and piano. *** Bach, J.S.: Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Keyboard in G minor, BWV.1029 Roger Tapping, viola; Judith Gordon, piano +++ J.S. Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Keyboard in G minor, BWV.1029 I. Vivace; II. Adagio; III. Allegro More info about Roger Tapping at http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/faculty/tappingR.html More about Ju ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger and Judy talk about Bach - WGBH Classical Performance Violist Roger Tapping and pianist Judith Gordon talk about the high points of playing Bach's G minor Gamba Sonata, in conversation with WGBH host Cathy Fuller. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on February 26th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Deveau plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance Beethoven's "Pastorale" Piano Sonata was the focal point of David Deveau's visit to our Boston studios. You can hear his affection for the piece in his playing. *** Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28, “Pastorale” David Deveau, piano. +++ I. Allegro; II. Andante; III. Scherzo (Allegro assai); IV. Rondo (Allegro ma non troppo) More info about David Deveau at http://rcmf.org/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on February 7th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Edu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Deveau talks about Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance David Deveau talks about the beauty of Beethoven's "Pastorale" Sonata, in conversation with WGBH host Cathy Fuller. More info about David Deveau at http://rcmf.org/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on February 7th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Krista River sings Robert Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance Krista River and Judith Gordon bring us Robert Schumann's great song-cycle, "Frauenliebe und Leben", "A Woman's Love and Life", composed in 1840, the year Schumann married Clara Wieck. *** Schumann, Robert: Frauenliebe und Leben, Op.42 Krista River, mezzo-soprano; Judith Gordon, piano +++ Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman's Love and Life), Op.42 1. Seit ich ihn gesehen (Since I Saw Him) 2. Er, der Herrlichste von allen (He, the Noblest of All) 3. Ich kann's nicht fas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Krista River talks about Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance Mezzo-soprano Krista River shares her insights into Robert Schumann's song-cycle "Frauenliebe und Leben" with WGBH's Cathy Fuller. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, February 4th, 2008. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. http://www.wgbh.org/classical. email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leslie Howard talks about Glazunov - WGBH Classical Performance Leslie Howard was eloquent on the subject of Alexander Glazunov, in conversation with"Classics in the Morning"host Cathy Fuller.Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, January 29, 2008.WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston.http://www.wgbh.org/classical.email:classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tyler Duncan sings Vaughan Williams - WGBH Classical Performance Canadian Baritone Tyler Duncan explores the poetry of Robert Louis Stephenson, in vivid settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams. His collaborator at the piano is Erika Switzer. *** Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel Tyler Duncan, baritone; Erika Switzer, piano +++ Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel (texts by Robert Lois Stevenson) 1. The Vagabond 2. Let Beauty Awake 3. The Roadside Fire 4. Youth and Love 5. In Dreams 6. The Infinite Shining Heavens 7. Whither Must I Wander? 8. Bright is th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joseph Lin plays Bach - WGBH Classical Performance Joseph Lin plays Bach's elegant Sonata No.2 for violin alone, in this performance from our archives. *** Bach, J.S.: Violin Sonata No.2 in A minor, BWV.1033 Joseph Lin, violin +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on April 20, 2001. (Note: Joseph Lin's recording with pianist Benjamin Loeb, of music by Korngold, is available on the Naxos label. http://www.naxos.com/) http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Orth plays Chopin - WGBH Classical Performance Chopin's Preludes for piano, Op.28, caused a stir when they were first published in 1839. There were 24 of them: one in each of the major and minor keys, and they were very short pieces, one of them only 12 bars long! American pianist Peter Orth, now based in Germany, played them for us. *** Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op.28 Peter Orth, piano. +++ More information at http://www.peterorth.de/. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, October 5th, 2007. WGBH Classical P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Orth talks about Chopin's Preludes - WGBH Classical Performance Peter Orth felt at a loss for words when program host Richard Knisely asked him to comment on Chopin's Preludes, Op.28...But he does have a couple of things to say! Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, October 5, 2007. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical. email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blue Heron sings music for Christmas from England and Burgundy The Blue Heron Renaissance Choir performed 15th century music: English carols and French pieces discovered in a Cypriot manuscript, before a live audience of WGBH members. *** Anon. (15th c. English); Guillaume Du Fay; Anon. (15th c. Cypriot MS): Carols and motets for Christmas. Blue Heron Renaissance Choir +++ Detailed listing: 1. Anon (15th c. English): Ther is no rose of swych vertu. 2. Anon. (15th c. English): Nowel syng we now al and sum. 3. Guillaume Du Fay (c.1397-1474): Letabund ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Metcalfe talks about music of Cypress in the 15th century - WGBH Classical Performance In conversation with WGBH Classical host Richard Knisely, Blue Heron director Scott Metcalfe answers the question, "Why Cypress?". *** Anon. Cypriot, c. 1413-1422: music for Christmas Scott Metcalfe (in conversation) +++ Recorded in a live broadcast in WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, on December 20th, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Triple Helix plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance This Trio in G major is the only Piano Trio Mozart composed with a specific publisher in mind. It was an English musician who published it in 1789. the Boston-based Piano Trio Triple Helix performed it in a live broadcast, along with the Fanny Mendelssohn Trio we heard a few weeks ago on the podcast. *** Mozart: Trio in G major, KV 564 Triple Helix +++ Triple Helix: Lois Shapiro, piano; Bayla Keyes, violin; Rhonda Rider, cello. More info at: http://www.triplehelixpianotrio.org/ Recor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philippa Davies and Maggie Cole play Bach - WGBH Classical Performance Flute virtuoso Philippa Davies and harpsichordist extraordinaire Maggie Cole have a terrific CD out of Bach Flute Sonatas, on the Avie label. Here's one that's not on that recording. They played it just yesterday in the Fraser Performance Studio here at WGBH *** Bach, J.S.: Flute Sonata in G minor, BWV.1020 Philippa Davies, flute; Maggie Cole, harpsichord +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, December 6, 2007. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pacifica String Quartet plays Hindemith - WGBH Classical Performance Paul Hindemith wrote a great deal of music for a wide variety of instruments, but we don't often hear about his string quartets. Here are two movements from the Third String Quartet of this 20th century master, played by the Pacifica String Quartet. *** Hindemith: String Quartet No.3 in C major, Op.22 (Movements 1 and 2) Pacifica Quartet +++ The entire performance, including the String Quartet No.2 in A minor by Felix Mendelssohn, is available for on-demand listening at http://www.wgbh.o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walden Chamber Players play Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance The Walden Chamber Players bring out the vitality in this quartet by Mozart, originally written to feature a star oboist of Mozart's time, Friedrich Ramm. The Walden Players' star oboist is Laura Ahlbeck. *** Mozart: Quartet for Oboe and Strings, K.370 Walden Chamber Players +++ Laura Ahlbeck, oboe; Joel Pitchon, violin; Christof Huebner, viola; Ashima Scripp, cello. http://www.waldenchamberplayers.org Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on November 12, 2007. ©2007 WGB ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Louis Schwizgebel-Wang plays Brahms -WGBH Classical Performance The 19-year-old Swiss pianist Louis Schwizgebel-Wang recently won first prize in the 2007 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and stopped by the Fraser Performance Studio to play Brahms, among other things. We had a live audience on hand to greet him! *** Brahms: Rhapsodies, Op.79 Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, piano +++ I. No. 1 in B minor II. No. 2 in G minor Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on October 31st, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wg ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Triple Helix plays Fanny Mendelssohn - WGBH Classical Performance Felix Mendelssohn's older sister, Fanny had tremendous talent and the potential to be a great composer, but her father couldn't bring himself to support her in it. "Music will perhaps become his [i.e. Felix's] profession," he wrote in 1820, "while for you it can and must be only an ornament'". Such were the attitudes toward women. The piano trio Triple Helix plays her Trio in D minor, Op.11. *** Mendelssohn, Fanny: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11. Triple Helix +++ I. Allegro molto vivace ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exsultemus sings music of 16th century France - WGBH Classical Performance Boston-based period vocal ensemble Exsultemus performs vocal music of 16th century France -- both sacred music and "airs de coeur", accompanied by the lute. *** Goudimel, Bataille, de Costeley, Moulinié, and Le Jeune: vocal music from 16th-century france. Exsultemus +++ Selections: 1. Claude Goudimel: Ainsi qu’on oit le cerf bruire ("As one hears the deer rustling"). Catherine Hedberg, mezzo-soprano; Jason McStoots, tenor; Eric Rice, tenor; Brian Church, bass; with Catherine Liddell, lute ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Rice talks about French music from the 16th century - WGBH Classical Performance In conversation with WGBH Classical host Richard Knisely, Exsultemus director Eric Rice discusses the music of 16th century France: how the French sought recover the powerful emotive effects of ancient music. Their approach emphasized the meter of French poetry, yielding a new unique approach to rhythm known as musique mesurée à l'antique. *** Goudimel, Bataille, et al. Eric Rice (in conversation) +++ Recorded in a live broadcast in WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, on October 16, 2007. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hugo Wolf String Quartet plays Haydn - WGBH Classical Performances We're continuing with a sort of unintended Haydn String Quartet Festival here on the Classical Performance podcast. This time it's a brilliant young string quartet from Vienna, who stopped in at the Fraser Performance Studio as part of a brief American tour. *** Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op.20 No.4 Hugo Wolf String Quartet +++ Sebastian Gürtler, violin; Régis Bringolf, violin; Gertrud Weinmeister, viola; Florian Berner, cello http://www.hugowolfquartett.com/main_e.htm Recorded ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hugo Wolf Quartet talks about Haydn - WGBH Classical Performances As a Viennese string quartet, the Hugo Wolf Quartet really understands the music of Haydn, who spent so much time in that fair city. Here they are to talk about it with WGBH's Cathy Fuller. *** Haydn. The Hugo Wolf String Quartet (in conversation) +++ Recorded in a live broadcast in WGBH's Studio One, on October 17, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Borromeo String Quartet plays Haydn - WGBH Classical Performance The Borromeo String Quartet paid its first visit to the Fraser Performance Studio for a performance of Haydn's Quartet in D, Op. 76, No. 5, the "Largo". They also had a great conversation about the music, and you can find it on the previous episode, called "The Borromeo Quartet talks about Haydn". *** Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op. 76, No. 5, the "Largo". Borromeo String Quartet +++: Nicholas Kitchen, violin; Kristopher Tong, violin; Mai Motobuchi, viola; Yeesun Kim, cello. http://www.b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Borromeo Quartet talks about Haydn - WGBH Classical Performance Members of the Borromeo String Quartet talk about the Haydn Quartets, and why they call Haydn's Quartet in D, Op. 76, No. 5, the "Largo". The other voice you hear is Cathy Fuller's. She's the host of WGBH Radio's "Classics in the Morning". *** Haydn. Nick Kitchen and Kristopher Tong (in conversation) +++ Recorded in a live broadcast in WGBH's Studio One, on October 9, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miriam Fried and Jonathan Biss play Brahms - WGBH Classical Performance It's a mother-and-son duo this week, featuring violinist Miriam Fried, faculty member at the New England Conservatory, with Jonathan Biss, piano. Still in his twenties, Jonathan has a new CD of Beethoven Sonatas, out on EMI. *** Brahms: Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 78 Miriam Fried, violin; Jonathan Biss, piano +++ More info on Jonathan: http://www.jonathanbiss.com More info on Miriam: http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/faculty/friedM.html Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irina Muresanu and the New England String Ensemble play Hubay and Sarasate Our orchestral debut! Here's the first live performance from our new Fraser Performance Studio, featuring the New England String Ensemble and violinist Irina Muresanu playing Hubay and Sarasate. Until now, we've been unable to feature a string orchestra because we just didn't have the space, but now we do! See pictures of the Fraser studio by clicking on http://wgbh.org/classical/ . *** Hubay: Czardas Scene No. 2 and Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen Irina Muresanu, violin; New England Strin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wonny Song plays Rachmaninov - WGBH Classical Performance Rachmaninov enjoyed studying the music of Corelli with his friend the violinist Fritz Kreisler. He liked one of the themes so much that he made a set of variations for piano. I guess he didn't know that the theme wasn't written by Corelli, but was an Iberian folksong. We hear it played by the Korean-Canadian pianist, Wonny Song. *** Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 Wonny Song, piano +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on December 1st, 2006. ©2007 WG ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Borromeo String Quartet plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance Mozart was a great admirer of Haydn's string quartets. The two composers played them together in chamber music evenings during the cold winter months of the 1780's in Vienna. So naturally Mozart made Haydn his model when it came to writing his own quartets, and dedicated his first publication to the older composer. But the admiration went both ways: Haydn told Mozart's father, "Your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name." This performance by the Borromeo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boston Chamber Music Society plays Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance Listening to this music, it's hard to believe the mental torment Schumann was going through in October of 1853. Just five months later he was in the asylum, where he lived for the rest of his life. But these pieces have all the lightness and sunshine we might associate with the young Brahms, who as a matter of fact, was visiting Schumann at the time he was writing these "Fairy Tale Narratives". *** Schumann, Robert: Märchenerzählungen, Op.132 Marcus Thompson, viola; Thomas Hill, clarinet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Owen Dalby and Alex Rabin play Debussy - WGBH Classical Performance Violinist Owen Dalby and pianist Alex Rabin have toured together for several years now. Fellow students at Yale University, they were prize winners at the 2007 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition. They play Debussy's last composition, the entrancing Sonata for Violin and Piano. *** Debussy: Violin Sonata Owen Dalby, violin; Alex Rabin, piano +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on March 11th, 2005. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/clas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Max Levinson plays more Schubert - WGBH Classical Performance Here's some Schubert that we accidentally added to the beginning of the original version of our last episode, which featured the "Wanderer" Fantasy. These were from that same live performance by Max Levinson. I thought it was only fair that we give them to you as a little bonus! *** Schubert: Three Pieces, Op. Post., D.946 Max Levinson, piano +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on October 31st, 2005. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Max Levinson plays Schubert - WGBH Classical Performance Max Levinson tackles Schubert's most demanding piano music in this live performance in WGBH's Studio One: It's the great "Wanderer" Fantasy. Apparently Schubert himself had trouble with this piece -- He's quoted as saying "The devil may play it!" *** Schubert: Fantasy in C major, Op.15 D.760 "The Wanderer" Max Levinson, piano +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on October 31st, 2005. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classica ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The St. Petersburg String Quartet plays Dvorak - WGBH Classical Performance The St. Petersburg String Quartet celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. This group started out as the Leningrad Quartet, but changed its name when that great city was again called St. Petersburg. Here they are with the "American" String Quartet by Dvorak. *** Dvorak: String Quartet in F major, Op.96 "American" St. Petersburg String Quartet +++ Alla Aranovskaya and David Chernyavsky, violins; Boris Vayner, viola; Leonid Shukayev, cello. More information about the quartet is at http: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giuliano Carmignola and Andrea Marcon play Corelli and Bonporti Giuliano Carmignola is one of the star violinists of the early music world, and we were delighted that he could come to the studio to perform Baroque music from his native Italy, with his friend, the equally renowned harpsichordist, Andrea Marcon. *** Corelli: Sonata No.4 in F major, Op.5 and Bonporti: Invention No.8 in E minor for violin and basso continuo Giuliano Carmignola, violin; Andrea Marcon, harpsichord +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on June 10, 2003. ©20 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Megan Sterling and Kristian Chong play Gaubert - WGBH Classical Performance Flutists know and love Philippe Gaubert's music, but he's not too well-known outside the world of the flute. Still, his flute pieces are gorgeous and lyrical, and they make good use of the expressive capabilities of this instrument. Our performance is by Megan Sterling, the Principal Flute of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. The pianist is Kristian Chong. *** Gaubert: Sonate (1918). Megan Sterling, flute; Kristian Chong, piano. +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on October ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ya-Fei Chuang and Robert Levin play Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance Musician-scholars like Robert Levin are learning new things about Mozart all the time. For instance, now they know that the piece once known as the Sonata for piano four-hands in G major, K.357, is not really one work, but two incomplete pieces attached together by a 19th-century publisher! Robert Levin created a new complete version, and played it live in our Studio One with his wife, the celebrated pianist Ya-Fei Chuang. *** Mozart: Allegro (K.497a) and Andante (K.500a) in G major fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Levin talks about Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance In conversation with WGBH host Richard Knisely, Professor Robert Levin talks about the origins of Mozart's Sonata in G major for piano-four-hands. *** Mozart. Robert Levin (in conversation) +++ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on February 15, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boston Chamber Music Society plays Mendelssohn Octet- WGBH Classical Performance The Boston Chamber Music Society is back with more Mendelssohn. They brought the great Octet for Strings to our Grand Finale in WGBH's Studio One in April (By the way, stay tuned for performances from our brand new studios this Fall, 2007!). This is one of Mendelssohn's finest works -- He wrote it in 1825, when he was still a teenager! *** Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat major, Op.20. Boston Chamber Music Society +++ Ida Levin, Jennifer Frautschi, Irina Muresanu, Harumi Rhodes, violins; Marc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hopkinson Smith plays lute music of Dowland - WGBH Classical Performance John Dowland was plying his trade as a musician in the time of Shakespeare. His music has a way of capturing the emotions exactly -- especially sadness. Here's a sampling of his music played by one of the great lutenists of our time, Hopkinson Smith. *** Dowland: Music for the lute. Hopkinson Smith, lute +++ John Dowland (Works primarily from the Varietie of Lute Lessons, London, 1610): Pavin la Mia Barbara; Lady Hunsdon’s Allmande; Lachrymae Pavin; Mrs. White's Nothing. Recorded in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Idil Biret plays Bach, arranged by Brahms - WGBH Classical Performance Johannes Brahms called Bach's Chaconne for solo violin "one of the most wonderful and most unfathomable pieces of music... On a single staff, for a tiny instrument, the man has written a whole world of the most profound ideas and powerful emotions." To help to understand this music, Brahms arranged it for his own instrument, the piano, but for the left hand alone! The result is a tour de force for the left hand. J.S. Bach, arr. Johannes Brahms: Chaconne for the left hand (after the f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Claremont Trio plays Ravel - WGBH Classical Performance Ravel escaped the social scene of Paris in the summer of 1914, and went off to the Basque country of southwest France, to compose his Piano Trio. This live-to-air performance is by the Claremont Trio. I. Modéré; II. Pantoum: Assez vif; III. Passacaille: Trés large; IV. Final: Animé. The Claremont Trio: Emily Bruskin, violin; Julia Bruskin, cello; Donna Kwong, piano. More information about the trio is at http://claremonttrio.com/. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Byron Schenkman plays Louis Couperin and Georg Muffat - WGBH Classical Performance Louis XIV, "The Sun King" had some amazing musicians in his employ, including the opera composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), whose music is the focus of the 2007 Boston Early Music Festival (info at www.bemf.org). A couple of the lesser-known composers in his court were Louis Couperin (c.1626-1661) and Georg Muffat (1653-1704). Our harpsichordist is Byron Schenkman. Louis Couperin: Pieces in A minor. I. Prélude; II. La Piemontoise; III. Courante la Mignone; IV. Sarabande. Georg Mu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Stoltzman and Eliot Fisk play Schubert - WGBH Classical Performance Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and guitarist Eliot Fisk are two Boston musicians at the very top of their craft. The New York Times said this about Richard Stoltzman: "His mastery of the clarinet and his impeccable musicianship are no secret by now….If Mr. Stoltzman is not one of a kind, who might the others be?" And about Eliot Fisk: "The perfect execution of his varied program left the audience enchanted." In WGBH's Studio One, they played Schubert's Sonatine in D, D.384 (Op.137 No.1). ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paavali Jumppanen plays Beethoven - More! - WGBH Classical Performance Continuing our mini-series of two episodes featuring Beethoven's Op.10 Piano Sonatas, the Finnish pianist Paavali Jumppanen brings the Sonata No.7 in D major, Op.10 No.3. Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.7 in C minor, Op.10 No.3 I. Presto; II. Largo e mesto; III. Menuetto: Allegro IV. Rondo: Allegro More information on Paavali Jumppanen at: http://www.artsmg.com/jumppanen/jumppanen.htm Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on April 20th, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Education ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paavali Jumppanen plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance Pianist Paavali Jumppanen is in the midst of an exploration of the Sonatas of Beethoven, with recitals in the United States and Finland. This is the first of two episodes featuring Jumppanen playing Beethoven. Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.5 in C minor, Op.10 No.1 I. Allegro molto e con brio; II. Adagio molto; III. Finale. Prestissimo. More information on Paavali Jumppanen at: http://www.artsmg.com/jumppanen/jumppanen.htm Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on Ap ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ilya Kaler and Janice Weber play Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance Rudolphe Kreutzer was known as the finest violinist of his day, but he wasn't too keen on the Sonata Beethoven dedicated to him - the Sonata in A major, Op.47. Now it's one of Beethoven's most popular works! We hear it played before a live audience in WGBH's studio One, by violinist Ilya Kaler and pianist Janice Weber. Beethoven: Sonata in A major, Op.47. I. Adagio sostenuto– presto; II. Andante con Variazioni; III. Finale: Presto. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Moscow String Quartet plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance The Moscow String Quartet is best known for its interpretations of Russian Music, by composers like Schnittke and Gubaidulina, but when they visited our studio they told us they considered Mozart to be the"ultimate test"of a string quartet.Mozart: String Quartet No.21 in D major, K.575.I. Allegretto;II. Andante;III. Menuetto: Allegretto. Trio;IV. Allegretto.Moscow String Quartet:Eugenia Alikhanova, 1st violin;Galina Kokhanovskaya, 2nd violin;Tatiana Kokhanovskaya, viola;Olga Ogranovitch, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ya-Fei Chuang and Robert Levin play Rachmaninov - WGBH Classical Performance Sergei Rachmaninov was coming out of a major bout of the blues in 1901, when he wrote this Suite for Two Pianos. But it was an amazing come-back. Not only did he compose this exuberant music, but also the stunning Piano Concerto No.2, Op.18, in that same year.Sergei Rachmaninov: Suite No.2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17.I. Introduction;II. Valse;III. Romance;IV. Tarantella.Ya-Fei Chuang, piano; Robert Levin, piano.Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on February 15, 2007.©2007 WGBH E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Corey Cerovsek and Jeremy Denk play Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance One of the high points of our history here at WGBH's Studio One: the Mozart Day! To help celebrate Mozart's 250th birthday, violinist Corey Cerovsek teamed up with pianist Jeremy Denk to play Mozart's great E minor Sonata. Mozart: Sonata in E minor, K. 304. I. Allegro; II. Tempo di menuetto Corey Cerovsek, violin; Jeremy Denk, piano. (More about Corey at http://www.artsmg.com/cerovsek/ , and more about Jeremy at http://www.jeremydenk.net/ ) Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu play Brahms - WGBH Classical Performance We're digging into the archives to find some of our favorite Studio One performances this month. Here's a truly virtuosic American clarinetist, Jon Manasse, with Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Jon Nakamatsu at the piano, playing music by Brahms. Johannes Brahms: Sonata in E flat Major, Op.120 No.2. I. Allegro amabile; II. Allegro appassionato III. Andante con moto. Jon Manasse, clarinet; Jon Nakamatsu, piano. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on December 9th, 2002. ©2007 WG ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Flanders Recorder Quartet plays hits of the 16th & 17th centuries - WGBH Classical Performance For Classical Music Month here at WGBH, we're featuring some of our favorite live performances from the past few years. Our morning host, Cathy Fuller, says ""These guys are like rock stars of early music. With recorders that range from just a few inches long to ones you need a ladder to play, they turn all their discipline into the sheer fun of playing!" 1. Anon. (Robertsbridge Codex): Estampitta; 2. Nicolo Corradini ( ?- 1646): Canzon Settima ‘La Bizarra’; 3. Tarquinio Merula (c. 1575- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc-André Hamelin plays Liszt - WGBH Classical Performances Marc-André Hamelin seems to be recording continuously, in some of the most interesting corners of the piano repertoire. Godowsky, Grainger and Kapustin are some of the composers he champions. Here, from his recent visit to our WGBH Studio, he plays two serene pieces by Liszt, inspired by the Italian poet Petrarch. Serenity itself! Franz Liszt: Petrarch Sonnet No.104; Petrarch Sonnet No.123. Marc-André Hamelin, piano More information at http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artist_page.asp?n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Parker String Quartet plays Ravel - WGBH Classical Performance The Parker String Quartet gives Ravel's music the luminous, brilliant performance it deserves. The Parkers have been getting some well-deserved praise lately as well. The New York Times called their recent debut performance "flawlessly balanced, perfectly tuned and sheathed in lustrous textures". Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F major. I. Allegro moderato; II. Assiz vif-Trés rhythmé; III. Trés lent; IV. Vif et agité. The Parker String Quartet: Daniel Chong, violin; Karen Kim, violin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger Tapping and Judith Gordon play Rebecca Clarke - WGBH Classical Performance This is the piece which made Rebecca Clarke famous, briefly, in 1919, when it received top honors at the Berkshire Chamber Music Festival. Evidently it caused quite a stir, when the composer was revealed to be a woman of 33! Rebecca Clarke: Sonata for Viola and Piano (1919). I. Impetuoso; Poco agitato; II. Vivace; III. Adagio; Allegro. Roger Tapping, viola; Judith Gordon, piano Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on February 16th, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Triple Helix plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance Beethoven"breaks the mold"of the conventional piano trio form in his Piano Trios, Op.70. We heard the first one in our Episode from 1/12/07, and this is the second of the two, played by Triple Helix.Beethoven: Piano Trio Op.70 No.2 in E flat majorI. Poco sostenuto; Allegro ma non troppo;II. Allegretto;III. Allegretto ma non troppo;IV. Finale: Allegro.Triple Helix: Lois Shapiro, piano; Bayla Keyes, violin; Rhonda Rider, cello. More info at: http://www.triplehelixpianotrio.org/Recorded ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gavriel Lipkind plays Debussy - WGBH Classical Performance Cellist Gavriel Lipkind and pianist Claudia Schellenberger bring out all the colors in Debussy's Cello Sonata, composed in 1915. The composer originally called it "Pierrot fâché avec la lune" - "Pierrot angry with the moon", referring to the character in the "Commedia dell'arte" plays dating back to the 15th century. Pierrot was witty, pathetic, and nostalgic all at once...just like this music! Claude Debussy: Cello Sonata (1915). I. Prologue. Lent; II. Sérénade. Modérément animé; III. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lois Shapiro talks about Beethoven Pianist Lois Shapiro explains what makes Beethoven so iconoclastic, in his Piano Trio Op.70 No.2 in E flat major. The other voice you hear is Cathy Fuller's. She's the host of WGBH Radio's"Classics in the Morning".Recorded in alive broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on March 2nd, 2007.©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation.http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amy Briggs Dissanayake plays Ravel - WGBH Classical Performance Pianist Amy Briggs Dissanayake gives a brilliant performance of Maurice Ravel's strange and fantastic musical exploration, Gaspard de la nuit, Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit. I. Ondine (the water nymph); II. Le Gibet (the gallows); III. Scarbo ("Scarbo", the gnome). Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on February 26th, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emmanuel Music performs Handel - WGBH Classical Performance We offer a glimpse into the operatic world of Handel's "Ariodante": Love, treachery, triumph and betrayal are all on tap in these four arias -- a sampling from Emmanuel Music's concert presentation of this great opera, set in 8th century Scotland. "Quì d'amor nel suo linguaggio" (Here, in their own language) - Paula Murrihy, soprano (Ariodante); "Del mio sol vezzosi rai" (The charming rays of my sun) - Charles Blandy, tenor (Lurcarnio); "Il mio crudel martoro" (My cruel torment) - Sarah Pe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boston Chamber Music Society plays Mendelssohn - WGBH Classical Performance The Boston Chamber Music Society sets the standard by which all other Boston chamber ensembles are measured, or so it seems, bringing together some of the finest players in town. And this (smokin'!)performance of the Mendelssohn Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49 sets the mark very high indeed! Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49. • Molto allegro agitato; • Andante con moto tranquillo; • Scherzo: Leggiero e vivace; • Finale: Allegro assai appassionato; Irina Muresanu, vi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Musica Pacifica plays Baroque from the British Isles - WGBH Classical Performance Musica Pacifica gives us traditional Scots and Irish music with a distinctly Baroque feel. A Trio Sonata from the Scottish Baroque composer James Oswald (1710-1769), and a group of Irish tunes, arranged for Baroque Ensemble by violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock. James Oswald: A Sonata of Scots Tunes (1740) Largo - O Mother what shall I do; Adagio - Ettrick Banks; Andan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Venere Lute Quartet plays Palestrina - WGBH Classical Performance The sacred vocal music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina takes on an uncommon beauty when performed by an ensemble of lutes. The Venere Lute Quartet: Phillip Rukavina, Christopher Morrongiello, Douglas Freundlich, and Gail Gillispie. Palestrina: Missa Brevis Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on January 18th, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Venere Lute Quartet talks about Palestrina Gail Gillispie of the Venere Lute Quartet describes how the group learned that Palestrina composed his great vocal music on the lute. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on January 18th, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dejan Lazic plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance The phenomenal Croatian-born pianist Dejan Lazic was featured in an earlier episode, playing Ravel. He's just as brilliant playing Mozart. Mozart: Fantasie in D minor, K. 397 Mozart: Piano Sonata in D major, K. 311 Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on January 26th, 2006. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Peabody Trio plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance The Peabody Trio brings Beethoven's "Ghost" to Studio One! It's his Piano Trio, Op.70 No.1, also known as the "Ghost", because of its other-worldly second movement. Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, Op.70 No.1 Allegro vivace e con brio; Largo assai ed espressivo; Presto. Violaine Melançon, Violin Natasha Brofsky, Cello Seth Knopp, Piano More information: http://peabodytrio.org/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on January 9th, 2007. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gilles Vonsattel plays Liszt - WGBH Classical Performance Pianist Gilles Vonsattel brings a great sensitivity to the music of Franz Liszt. These are two pieces from his Années de Pèlerinage - Years of Pilgrimage. In them Liszt tried to capture the brooding majesty of the cypress trees and the fountains at the Villa d'Este, an estate where he lived during his stay in Rome. Franz Lizst: from Années de Pèlerinage, Troisième Année, Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este; Les jeux d'Eaux à la Villa d'Este Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sarasa plays Biber, Bruhns and Scheidt - WGBH Classical Performance Sarasa is a group of musicians from around the world who perform for diverse communities, in both concert halls and youth detention facilities. Here they perform music by Biber, Bruhns and Scheidt. More information at http://www.sarasamusic.org/ Heinrich Biber: Sonata II from Mensa Sonora for two violins, viola and basso continuo; Nicholas Bruhns: "Jauchzet dem Herren, Alle Welt" (Frank Kelley, tenor); Samuel Scheidt: Paduana Dolorosa a 4 for two violins, viola and basso continuo. Eliza ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jupiter String Quartet with more Haydn - WGH Classical Performance The Jupiter String Quartet is back! Hey, maybe we should make this into a series! This time it's one of the "Sun" Quartets: the String Quartet Op.20 No.4 in D major. The Jupiter is Nelson Lee, Meg Freivogel, violins; Liz Freivogel, viola; Dan McDonough, cello. Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op.20, No.4. Allegro di molto; Un poco adagio affettuoso; Menuetto. Allegretto alla zingarese; Presto scherzando. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on December 14th, 2006. ©2006 W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Owen Young and Alan Murchie play Saint-Saens - WGBH Classical Performance Boston cellist Owen Young has been performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1991, but he's also a highly respected chamber musician and soloist. Here he is, live in Studio One, with pianist Alan Murchie, in music by Saint-Saëns. Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello Sonata No.1 in C minor, Op.32 Allegro; Andante tranquillo sostenuto; Allegro moderato. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on November 29th, 2006. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/cla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wonny Song plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance The Korean-Canadian pianist Wonny Song has been called "...a versatile, intelligent and deeply musical young pianist". He brought an early Sonata by Beethoven when he visited WGBH's Studio One for this live broadcast. Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A Major, Op.2, No. 2 Allegro vivace; Largo appassionato; Scherzo: Allegro; Rondo: Grazioso. More info about Wonny at: http://www.yca.org/song.html Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on November 7th, 2006. ©2006 WGBH Educa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yuri Mazurkevich and Sally Pinkas play Brahms Violinist Yuri Mazurkevich and pianist Sally Pinkas perform the brilliant G major Sonata by Johannes Brahms. Mazurkevich says this work has a "dramatic feeling about it", even underneath the sunny melodies. Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op.78 Vivace ma non troppo; Adagio; Allegro molto moderato. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on November 7th, 2006. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Vogler String Quartet plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance The Vogler String Quartet has been bringing great performances to its audiences for over twenty years, with the same four players: Tim Vogler, violin; Frank Reinecke, violin; Stefan Fehlandt, viola; and Stephan Forck, cello. When they visited us at WGBH, they brought Beethoven's 9th String Quartet, Op.59 No.3, one of the three quartets commissioned in 1808 by the Russian Count Razumovsky. More info: http://www.voglerquartet.com Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on Novemb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hopkinson Smith plays lute music of Robert Ballard - WGBH Classical Performance Hopkinson Smith has been described as "one of the world's real masters of the lute". We were honored to have him visit our studio at WGBH to play music of an early 17th century French master lutenist, Robert Ballard, as well as a couple of pieces by his English contemporary, John Dowland. Robert Ballard (Works primarily from the Premier livre de luth, Paris, 1611): Entrée de Luth; Courante de la Reyne; 4 Branles de Village. John Dowland (Works primarily from the Varietie of Lute Lessons, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tapestry and Putni sing Latvian Lullabies and Folksongs - WGBH Classical Performance The Boston vocal ensemble Tapestry has a great formula: combining medieval repertoire with contemporary and traditional songs. For this performance they are joined by special guests, the Putni vocal ensemble from Latvia. They perform Lullabies and Folksongs: Aija, zuzu - Latvian (Putni) 3:22 Lyulyala - Montenegran (Tapestry) 3:01 Supla dziesma - Latvian (Tapestry & Putni) 2:32 Latgalei - Latvian (Putni) 3:12 Avotai guni kuru - Latvian (Putni) 1:33 Kazu dziesmas - Latvian (Tapestry & ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Karen Gomyo plays Franck - WGBH Classical Performance Violinist Karen Gomyo was sixteen years old when she played a recital in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York in 1998, the youngest player to ever have that honor. From there she went on to perform as soloist with major orchestras throughout the United States and Canada. She’s now pursuing a post-graduate Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory, as she continues her concert career. Here she performs Cesar Franck’s Violin Sonata in A major, with pianist Dina Vainstein. Mor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Sykes and Mahan Esfahani play J.S. Bach - WGBH Classical Performance The harpsichord duo of Peter Sykes and Mahan Esfahani tackle Bach's Concerto for Two Harpsichords, BWV.1061a. Mr. Sykes is renowned for his interpretations of Bach's keyboard music, and his student, Mr. Esfahani, is now on his way to a major career in Early Music. For a clip from Richard Knisely's interview with Peter Sykes, download the episode entitled "Peter Sykes talks about Bach's Concerto for Two Harpsichords". Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on September 21, 200 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Sykes talks about Bach's Concerto for Two Harpsichords Harpsichordist Peter Sykes isn't exactly heartbroken to have no orchestra for the unusual Concerto in C major BWV.1061a by J.S. Bach! He talks about it in this interview with WGBH's Richard Knisely. Recorded in a live broadcast from WGBH's Studio One on September 21, 2006. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Emanuela Friscioni play Debussy - WGBH Classical Performance Husband and wife piano team Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Emanuela Friscioni performed Debussy's"Petit Suite"for piano four-hands, while their 14-month old daughter charmed our staff in the control room, during this live radio performance from WGBH's Studio One.Claude Debussy's"Petite Suite":I. Boating;II. Cortege;III. Minuet;IV. Ballet;More info: http://www.pompa-baldi.comRecorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on August 24th, 2006.©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation.http://www.wgbh.org ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oboist Gonzalo Ruiz plays Sammartini and Vivaldi - WGBH Classical Performance Gonzalo Ruiz has been described as "one of a small handful of truly superb baroque oboists in the world". For this performance, he is joined by harpsichordist Katherine Shao and baroque cellist Joanna Blendulf. Together they're known as "La Riche and Co." Giuseppe Sammartini Oboe Sonata in G major Antonio Vivaldi "Damnation" Sonata in C minor Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on September 29, 2006. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tel Aviv Baroque Trio plays Quantz - WGBH Classical Performance Recorder player Drora Bruck, harpsichordist Marina Minkin, and cellist Orit Messer are all faculty members of the Israel Conservatory of Music, and together they are the Tel Aviv Baroque Trio. J.S. Bach's Partita for Recorder and continuo is first on this program. Then the Trio is joined by Boston flutist Na'ama Lion for a Trio Sonata in C major by Johann Joachim Quantz. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on September 18, 2006. Tel Aviv Baroque Trio: Drora Bruck, recorder ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin Carr plays Bach - WGBH Classical Performance When Colin Carr performs music for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, the critics rave: one reviewer called his performance "breathtaking, refreshing and entirely convincing ...a thorough artistry which is above all intelligent and respectful of the composer ". Here he plays the Suite No.3 in C major, BWV. 1009 The movements are: Prelude; Allemande; Courante; Sarabande; Bourree I & II; Gigue. More information: http://www.carolinebairdartists.co.uk/html/carr-biog.htm For a clip fro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin Carr talks about Bach's Cello Suites Cellist Colin Carr has an unusual approach to the Cello Suites of Bach. He talks about it in this interview with WGBH's Richard Knisely. Recorded in a live broadcast from WGBH's Studio One on September 15, 2006. To listen to the entire performance on line, including the complete interview, go to http://www.wgbh.org/command. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Violinist Christina Day Martinson plays Biber - WGBH Classical Performance Baroque Violinist Christina Day Martinson and harpsichordist Martin Pearlman tackle three of the fifteen “Rosary Sonatas” by Heinrich von Biber. These pieces call for “scordatura” (mis-tuned) violin, which makes for an unusual sound. Heinrich von Biber: “Rosary” (or “Mystery”) Sonatas: Sonata no. 1 (The Annunciation) Sonata no. 10 (The Crucifixion) Sonata no. 14 (The Assumption of the Virgin) Recorded at WGBH's Studio One on July 7, 2006, and broadcast September 13, 2006 on WGBH. Fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christina and Martin talk about Biber Violinist Christina Day Martinson and harpsichordist Martin Pearlman in conversation with WGBH's Cathy Fuller, talking about Heinrich von Biber's "Rosary" Sonatas. Recorded at WGBH's Studio One on July 7, 2006, and broadcast September 13, 2006 on WGBH. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pianist Idil Biret plays Brahms - WGBH Classical Performance Turkish pianist Idil Biret studied with some legendary pianists, including Nadia Boulanger, Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff. And she has become something of a legend in her own right, especially as an interpreter of the Romantic composers. Here she performs Variations on an Original Theme, Op.21 No.1 by Johannes Brahms. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on November 28, 2005. To listen to the entire performance on line, including an interview with WGBH's Cathy Fuller, go ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pacifica Quartet plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance The Pacifica String Quartet brought Mozart’s visionary “Dissonant” Quartet, the String Quartet in C major, K.465, when they visited Studio One. They also had some insights about the piece. To hear their comments, click on this week’s extra episode, “The Pacifica Quartet talks about Mozart’s “Dissonant””. The entire studio performance, including Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110 by Shostakovich, along with more conversation, is available for on-demand listening at http://www.wgbh.org/webca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pacifica Quartet talks about Mozart's "Dissonant" WGBH's Cathy Fuller, host of "Classics in the Morning", gets the Pacifica Quartet's impressions of this remarkable piece, and dares to ask: "If Mozart walked into the room right now, what would you say to him?". The Pacifica Quartet: Simin Ganatra, violin; Sibbi Bernhardsson, violin; Masumi Per Rostad, viola; Brandon Vamos, cello. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, July 21, 2006. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. ©2006 WGBH Educational Fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pianist Dejan Lazic plays Ravel - WGBH Classical Performance Maurice Ravel composed his Le Tombeau de Couperin as a memorial to several friends lost to World War I. Dejan Lazic performed this graceful and elegant piece on Jan. 26 of this year when he visited WGBH's Studio One. WGBH classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Violist Michael Zaretsky plays Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance Violist Michael Zaretsky has been acclaimed as a soloist and chamber musician, and as an interpreter of new music. He's also been a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 33 years. He's joined by pianist Sally Pinkas in a performance of Robert Schumann's Märchenbilder, Op. 113. More information and recordings: http://www.michaelzaretsky.net Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, January 31, 2006. WGBH classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. ©2006 WGBH ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boston Trio Plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance The Boston Trio comprises three of the city's most exciting performers: Heng-Jin Park, piano; Irina Muresanu, violin; and Allison Eldridge, cello. Hear the ensemble's May performance of Mozart's Piano Trio in B-flat, K. 502, from a live broadcast at WGBH. More information: http://www.bostontrio.com/ Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, April 27, 2006. WGBH Classical Performances is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Schola Cantorum of Boston sings Josquin des Prez - WGBH Classical Performance The Schola Cantorum of Boston is a twelve-voice ensemble dedicated to the performance of Renaissance sacred music, led by Frederick Jodry. The Schola performs music by the 15th century composer Josquin des Pres, live in Studio One. Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1521): Inviolata (chant) -- Faulte d'argent -- Si j'ai perdu a3 -- Si j'ai perdu a4 -- Gloria (Missa Ave maris stella). Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, April 27, 2006. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Korbinian Altenberger plays Ravel - WGBH Classical Performance Korbinian Altenberger is a rising star among violinists. A prize-winner at many international competitions, at the age of 24 he has already served as concertmaster of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and as soloist with orchestras around the world. He's a student in the New England Conservatory's Artist Diploma program. Korbinian Altenberger performs Maurice Ravel's Sonata in G major, with pianist Pei-Shan Lee. More information at http://www.astralartisticservices.org/artists/alten ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Calder Quartet plays Debussy - WGBH Classical Performance The Calder Quartet strives to push back the boundaries of traditional string quartet music. The group has been praised for its “splendor and substance,” ( Alan Rich , LA Weekly), It recently completed the first of two years as quartet-in-residence at Juilliard. Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, February 22, 2005. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lifson-Shlyam Piano Duo plays Arensky - WGBH Classical Performance In celebration of their 25 years on the Boston musical scene, Ludmilla Lifson and Eda Shlyam, the Lifson-Shlyam Piano Duo, visited WGBH's Studio One in March with a performance of Arensky's Suite No. 2, Op. 23, "Silhouettes." Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, March 9, 2006. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical. email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shauna Rolston and Heather Schmidt play Falla - WGBH Classical Performance Cellist Shauna Rolston’s performances have recently been described as “compelling”, and “dynamic”, delivering a sound that is “big, forceful and streamlined”. Here's a demonstration of that award-winning style. Shauna performs with pianist/composer Heather Schmidt in WGBH's Studio One. More information available at http://shaunarolston.com/ and http://heatherschmidt.com/ . Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, April 6, 2006. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGB ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stefan Jackiw plays Brahms - WGBH Classical Performance Violinist Stefan Jackiw's career continues to blossom in the midst of his studies at Harvard and the New England Conservatory. The 20-year-old Boston native has already been described as one of the most significant artists of his generation. In April he and pianist Timothy Bozarth offered this performance of Brahms's Third Violin Sonata in WGBH's Studio One. More about Stefan at http://www.icmtalent.com/musperf/profiles/60115.html Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, April ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stefan Jackiw talks about Brahms Stefan Jackiw shares one thing he learned about Brahms while preparing for his New England Conservatory Artist Diploma recital in the Spring of 2006. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, April 13, 2006. WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation. http://www.wgbh.org/classical. email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heng-Jin Park plays Chopin - WGBH Classical Performance Pianist Heng-Jin Park has been described as, "A centered musician with uncommon control over the sonorous possibilities of her instrument; she plays boldly with a full spectrum of colors, expertly mixed". Listen to the colors she coaxes from our piano in this performance of Frederic Chopin's haunting Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52. More about Heng-Jin at http://www.bostontrio.com/hengjin.html. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, March 7, 2006. WGBH Classical Performance i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Haimovitz plays Bach - WGBH Classical Performance Cellist Matt Haimovitz takes his music to the unlikeliest places, playing in bars and coffee houses all over the country -- a man on a mission to find new audiences for classical music. He breezed into Studio One to play Bach for us, the Suite No.1 in G major for solo cello, BWV.1007. Matt has two CD releases, available on the Oxingale label. More information at http://www.oxingale.com/. Look for a brief interview with Matt, in a separate podcast episode, entitled "Matt Haimovitz ta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Haimovitz talks about his mission Cellist Matt Haimovitz has a passion for building a new audience for classical music. He talks about it in this interview with WGBH host Richard Knisely. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, February 2nd, 2006 WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger Tapping and Judith Gordon play Schubert - WGBH Classical Performance Violist Roger Tapping travelled widely as a member of the Takács Quartet for ten years, from 1995 until he settled down to a teaching and solo performing career in Boston in 2005. Here he performs with pianist Judith Gordon in music by Schubert: his "Arpeggione" Sonata, in A minor, D.821. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, April 20, 2006 WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. ©2006 WGBH Educational Foundation http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Members of Sarasa play Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance Sarasa helped us celebrate Mozart’s 250th birthday in January 2006, with this performance of his “Kegelstatt” Trio, K.498. The players are: Nina Stern, clarinet Jennifer Stirling, viola Maggie Cole, fortepiano Sarasa is a chamber music ensemble, dedicated to bringing music to as wide an audience as possible. For more info, go to http://www.sarasamusic.org. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, January 27th, 2006 WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jupiter String Quartet plays Haydn - WGBH Classical Performance The Jupiter String Quartet brings its own brand of intense music-making to Studio One in this live performance. The Quartet has been winning some impressive awards over the last few years, picking up first place honors in both the Banff String Quartet Competition, and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. The Jupiter Quartet is enrolled in the New England Conservatory's Professional String Quartet Training Program. Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 No. 4 in B-flat, "Sunrise" ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Buswell plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance Violinist James Buswell has enjoyed a major solo career for the past 40 years, performing with nearly all of the major orchestras in North America, as well as many in Europe, Asia, and South America. He’s now a member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory, and for this performance he is joined by the gifted young pianist, Ning An. Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op.23 Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, April 10th, 2006 Artist websites: http://www.newe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason Vieaux plays Tarrega and Sor - WGBH Classical Performance Francisco Tarrega: Capricho Arabe Fernando Sor: Introduction and Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Op. 9 Jason Vieaux, guitar Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One, January 5, 2006 More about Jason Vieaux at http://jasonvieaux.com WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. http://www.wgbh.org/classical email: classical@wgbh.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blue Heron sings Guillaume Du Fay - WGBH Classical Performance Blue Heron Voices: Lydia Heather Knutson; Daniela Tosic; Aaron Sheehan; Mark Sprinkle; Vielle: Scott Metcalfe. Recorded in a live broadcast, February 28, 2006. All music by Guillaume Du Fay (c.1397-1474) unless otherwise noted. Singers/vielle indicated by first-name initials listed in brackets: -Entre vous, gentils amoureux (DAS) -Je me complains (AMS) -J’atendray tant qu’il vous playra (LAM) -Hugo de Lantins (fl.1420-1430): Mon doulx espoir (DAM) -Puisque vous estez campieur (LAS) -Gi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Kohji-Taylor plays Janacek - WGBH Classical Performance Leos Janacek: Sonata for Violin and Piano Andrew Kohji-Taylor, violin Timothy Bozarth, piano Recorded live in WGBH Studio One, 3/2/2006 WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. http://www.wgbh.org/classical Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc-André Hamelin plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A major, Op.109 Recorded live at WGBH Studio One, 2/27/2006 WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. http://www.wgbh.org/classical Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vienna Piano Trio plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance Mozart: Piano Trio in B-flat, K. 502 The Vienna Piano Trio: Stefan Mendl, piano Wolfgang Redik, violin Matthias Gredler, cello Recorded live at WGBH Studio One, 2/23/2006 WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston. http://www.wgbh.org/classical Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boston Chamber Music Society plays Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance Schumann read fairy tales to his own children, and was inspired to create musical fairy tales of his own. He didn't reveal the specific stories he was trying to evoke in this music, but the imagination can roam as the viola and clarinet penetrate the fairy world with their rich, dark colors.***Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales), Op. 132.Marcus Thompson, viola; Thomas Hill, clarinet; Mihae Lee, piano.+++These artists are members of the Boston Chamber Music Society.More inf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andreas Klein plays Bach and Chopin - WGBH Classical Performance J.S. Bach took a trip to Italy, and learned a great deal from the musicians he met. In this piece in the style of an Italian violin concerto, the pianist does double duty, playing the role of soloist and accompanist. Chopin, on the other hand, never made it to Italy, but captures the atmosphere of Venice beautifully in his Barcarolle.**Bach: Italian Concerto in F, BWV.971; and Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 60.Andreas Klein, piano.+++More info:http://andreasklein.com/Recorded in a live broadca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Rymer plays Cassado and Bach - WGBH Classical Performance Cellist Tony Rymer is the winner of 1st place in the 2009 Sphinx Competition, which recognizes the achievements of young African-American and Latino string players. He dropped into our studio to play solo pieces by Cassado and Bach***Cassado: Suite for Solo Cello, mvt. 1 (Prelude - Fantasia);Bach: Suite for Solo Cello No. 6, mvts. 2 (Allemande) and 6 (Gigue).Tony Rymer, cello+++More information:http://www.walnuthillarts.org/news/press/releases/rymer_022709.htmlRecorded in a live broadcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website