Pianist Stephen Kovacevich will describe the pain involved in Beethoven's First Piano Concerto before playing it with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. And Boris Berezovsky tackles two of Leopold Godowsky's extremely demanding Chopin transcriptions in Suffolk, England.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Kenneth Frazelle: "Fiddler's Galaxy"
Violinist Joseph Swensen and pianist Jeffrey Kahane
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Leonard Bernstein: Overture to "Candide"
The Curtis Symphony Orchestra with conductor Christoph Eschenbach
Kimmel Center, Philadelphia
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15
Pianist Stephen Kovacevich with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and conductor Joseph Swensen
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul
Frederic Chopin: Transcription of Op. 10, No. 5, and Op. 25, no. 9, combined in G-flat ("Badinage"), and transcription of Op. 10, No. 11 and Op. 25, No. 3, combined in F
Pianist Boris Berezovsky
Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England
Hour 2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D-Flat, BWV 1012
Harpist Victoria Drake
Ludwig van Beethoven: Third and fourth movements from Octet for Winds, Op. 103
The Chicago Chamber Musicians
Pic--Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois
Pablo Casals: "Song of the Birds" for Cello and Organ
Cellist Desmond Hoebig and organist Gregory D'Agostino
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Eastsound, Washington
Georg Philipp Telemann: "Gulliver" Suite
Violinists Geoff Nuttall and Barry Shiffman
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
Francesco Mancini: Sonata Sesta in D
Rebel
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
Georg Philipp Telemann: Third movement from Sonata Discordato in A
Rebel
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Igor Stravinsky: "Pulcinella" Suite
The New York Philharmonic with conductor Kurt Masur
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
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