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The Moet Trio plays Ravel - WGBH Classical PerformanceThe 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. More information about the trio at Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. Ensemble Caprice plays Gypsy music of the Baroque - WGBH ClassicalbThe 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. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April 24th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. Leslie Howard plays Rachmaninov and Borodin - WGBH Classical PerformanceLeslie 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. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, January 29, 2008. http://www.wgbh.org/classical. Leslie Howard talks about Rachmaninov - WGBH Classical PerformanceLeslie 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. http://www.wgbh.org/classical. Stephanie Jutt and Jeffrey Sykes play Beethoven - WGBH Classical PerformanceThis 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/. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April 17th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. Hélène Wickett plays Ravel - WGBH Classical PerformanceMaurice 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. Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 25th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. La Donna Musicale plays BonThe 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-????). Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 27th, 2008. ©2008 WGBH Educational Foundation. |
CelebrationsMusic is often written in celebration-of an emotion, an event, a rite of passage-and today we'll listen to pieces written to celebrate these occasions. When you talk about Italian vocal music, you are almost always dealing with love. The first song in the set, "Me voglio fa' 'na casa" by Donizetti, captures the free spirit of a sailor's love. The poetry, written in the Neopolitan dialect, adds a folk sensibility to this as well as the next song, "A' Vucchella" by Tosti. In the last song in the set, "Musica Proibita" by Stanislao Gastaldon, we get perhaps the lustiest declarations, in words so provocative that a mother forbids her young daughter to sing them! After that, a celebration of a very different sort. Mozart wrote this Divertimento in D Major for horns and strings, in part, to mark the graduation of his friend Sigmund Robinig from law school, according to the All Music Guide. The work's substantial instrumentation-with bass in addition to cello-and its larger-than-average proportions for a divertimento make it a particularly satisfying sample of Mozart's work in this genre. Recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see www.gardnermuseum.org. The UnknownsClassical music definitely has its stars, and Beethoven is arguably the biggest. But classical music has its lesser-knowns, too. In this program we'll listen to two composers who may not have achieved Beethoven's fame, but who have nonetheless earned a lasting place in the chamber music repertory. Sometimes writing for an instrument that doesn't have a big repertoire can earn a non-celebrity composer a permanent place on the recital stage. Such is the case with Tournier's Sonatine. A harpist married to another harpist, Tourier knew the instrument well and had a major hand in developing new techniques and expanding its repertoire. The Arensky Trio is one of this little-known Russian composer's most-performed works. The New Grove dictionary calls it one of his best, too, and notes the influence of Mendelssohn's own piano trio, as well as the work's elegiac third movement, written in homage to the cellist Davidov. Recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see www.gardnermuseum.org. Artist Diploma EditionBoston , where the Gardner Museum is located, is a big college town. And so every April, we tip our hats to Boston's student population with a series of concerts by some of the top young musicians enrolled in New England Conservatory's Artist Diploma program, one of the most prestigious music training programs in the country. This week on the podcast we will listen to two Artist Diploma violinists who have performed here in recent years. First, we'll hear Bach's third partita for solo violin. Though neither as virtuosic nor as familiar as the second partita, the third has all the sprightly energy of a dance, with its menuets, gigues and bourées. Next is Schumann's Violin Sonata No. 1. The sonata was written relatively late in Schumann's compositional career, after the bulk of his chamber music works, and it is evident upon listening that, though it is his first work for this particular instrumentation, the music is written by a more experienced hand. Recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see www.gardnermuseum.org. Practice Makes PerfectFor most contemporary composers, writing a dozen string quartets would be a fairly large feat. Since about Beethoven's time, and since composers have been writing more for themselves than for a patron or church, the sheer volume of individual compositional output has, for the most part, shrunk. Today, we take a listen to a few pieces from before that time: Mozart's 23rd violin sonata and Haydn's 59th string quartet. Haydn wrote 68 numbered string quartets. As a court-employed musician, he composed new pieces for every house concert, soiree and dance party the count cared to throw. Before the Haydn, we'll hear Mozart's 23rd violin sonata. In this later sonata, Mozart began to branch out a bit, abandoning the short, two-movement form in use in earlier classical music, and instead writing a more expansive, three-movement piece. Recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see www.gardnermuseum.org. Schumann at the Piano
Recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see www.gardnermuseum.org. |
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