When chamber music lovers visit the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, they don't know what's being played at the afternoon chamber music concerts until they see the program written on a chalkboard outside the Memminger Auditorium. And what a delight it must have been to see a masterpiece like Beethoven's Septet for Winds and Strings listed there a couple of weeks ago. We'll have that performance on today's show.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Joseph Longen: "Danse Lente" for Flute and Harp
Flutist Laurel Zucker and harpist Susan Jolles
Johann Sebastian Bach: First movement from Partita No. 2 in D Minor
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fourth movement from Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1023
Trio Settecento
The Frick Collection, New York, New York
Johann Sebastian Bach and Time for Three: "Bach Double"
Time for Three
Ramsey Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet for Winds and Strings in E-flat, Op. 20
Todd Palmer, clarinet; Eric Ruske, French horn; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Daniel Phillips, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Edward Arron, cello; and Anthony Manzo, bass
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
Johannes Brahms: "Romance," Op. 118, No. 5
The Catskill Mountain Chamber Orchestra with conductor Robert Manno
Catskill Mountain Foundation Performing Arts Center, Hunter, New York
Hour 2
Amy Beach: "Le Prince gracieux" ("The Gracious Prince")
Pianist Joanne Polk
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 42 in C, Hob. III/57
The St. Lawrence String Quartet
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
Amy Beach: Third Movement from the Suite for Two Pianos on Irish Melodies, Op. 104
Pianists Susan and Sarah Wang (second place winners)
Dranoff International Two Piano Competition, Miami, Florida
Franz Schubert and Anton Safronov: Two movements from the realized version of Symphony No. 8 in b Minor, "Unfinished"
The Russian National Orchestra with conductor Vladimir Jurowski
Villar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek, Colorado
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