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Composers Datebook®

Reminding you that all music was once new ® • with host John Birge

Composers Datebook for March 9, 2017

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Tabloid Paganini?

Niccolo Paganini (1782 - 1840) Caprice No. 10 James Ehnes, violin Telarc 80398

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C.P.E. Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788) excerpt from Wuerttemberg Sonatas Mahan Esfahani, hc. Hyperion 67995

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Daniel Pinkham

Daniel Pinkham (1923 - 2006) Serenades Maurice Murphy, trumpet; London Symphony; James Sedares, cond. Koch International 7179

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Beethoven's Op. 127

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) String Quartet in Eb, Op. 127 LaSalle Quartet DG 453 768

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Barber sings Barber

Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981) Dover Beach Samuel Barber, baritone; Curtis String Quartet Pearl 0049

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A Hopeful Fanfare

Adam Schoenberg (b. 1980) American Symphony for Orchestra Kansas City Symphony; Michael Stern, cond. Reference RR-139

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Richard Strauss, hero

Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40 Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, cond. Reference 83

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A Cello Concerto Marathon

Walter Piston (1894 – 1976) Variations for Cello and Orchestra Mstislav Rostropovich, vcl; London Symphony Orchestra; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, cond. Intaglio 7581 or Doremi DHR7974-9 (r. live 1967)

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Prokofiev's Cello Sonata

Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119 Mstislav Rostropovich, vcl; Sviatoslav Richter, p (r. March 1, 1950) EMI Classics 72016

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About Composers Datebook®

Host John Birge presents a daily snapshot of composers past and present, with timely information, intriguing musical events and appropriate, accessible music related to each.

He has been hosting, producing and performing classical music for more than 25 years. Since 1997, he has been hosting on Minnesota Public Radio's Classical Music Service. He played French horn for the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestra and performed with them on their centennial tour of Europe in 1995. He was trained at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Eastman School of Music and Interlochen Arts Academy.