We're devoting this week to the places where music meets great writing. Today, we'll have an hour on poetry, featuring a conversation with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and a tribute to Federico Garcia Lorca. Then we'll explore how myths and legends are retold in instrumental music by Schubert, Cesar Franck, Richard Strauss, Debussy and Bill McGlaughlin.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Ernest Chausson: "Le Temps des Lilas" ("The Time of Lilacs") from "The Poem of the Love of the Sea"
Cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Daria Hovora
Thomas Albert: Nos. three and eight from "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
eighth blackbird
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul
Manuel De Falla, Reginald Smith-Brindle, Federico Garcia Lorca and Isaac Albeniz Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia: "Tribute to Federico Garcia Lorca"
Guitarist Carlos Bonell
Reynaldo Hahn: "A Chloris"
Soprano Susan Graham and pianist Malcolm Martineau
Jordan Hall, Boston
Ned Rorem: "Sonnet"
Soprano Susan Graham and pianist Malcolm Martineau
Camille Saint-Saens: "Danse Macabre"
Soprano Susan Graham and pianist Malcolm Martineau
Jordan Hall, Boston
Ernest Chausson: "Poeme" for Violin and Orchestra
Violinist Michael Ludwig with the Buffalo Philharmonic and conductor JoAnn Falletta
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo
Hour 2
Christoph Willibald Gluck: "Melodie d'Orphee" ("Orpheus' Melody")
Pianist Earl Wild
Franz Schubert: "Erlkonig"
Violinist Kristof Barrati
Rolf Liebermann Studio, Hamburg, Germany
Cesar Franck: "Psyche et Eros" from "Psyche," symphonic poem
The Liege Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Pascal Rophe
Philharmonic Hall, Liege, Belgium
Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," Op. 28
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with conductor Paul Paray
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Claude Debussy: "Syrinx" for Solo Flute
Flutist Philippa Davies
Theresa L. Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, New York City
Bill McGlaughlin: "Remembering Icarus"
The Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra with conductor Lonnie Klein
New Mexico State University Music Center Recital Hall, Las Cruces, New Mexico
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