Two giant turbines loom large on the stage. Black iron hooks and chains dangle from the ceiling. No, it's not a medieval torture chamber. It's a concert venue, although an admittedly unusual one. It's the Heimbach Power plant in Germany, site of the Spannungen Chamber Music Festival. We'll hear a Dvorak piano quintet from Heimbach today on PT.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Grigoras Dinicu: "Hora Staccato"
The New York Philharmonic with conductor Leonard Bernstein
Richard Strauss: "Quick Waltz" from "Der Rosenkavalier"
The New York Philharmonic with conductor Lorin Maazel
Leopold Godowsky and Frederic Chopin: Two selections from "Studies on the Chopin Etudes"
Pianist Francesco Libetta
Miami International Piano Festival, Miami Beach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio in B-flat, K. 411
David Shifrin and Todd Levy, clarinets; Mark Dubac, Kyle Knox and James Moffitt, basset horns
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Igor Stravinsky: "The Song of the Nightingale"
The New York Philharmonic with conductor Lorin Maazel
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
Maurice Ravel: "Le tombeau de Couperin"
Music@Menlo faculty members
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
Hour 2
Josef Haydn: Moderato from the Piano Sonata No. 57 in F, Hob. XVI/47
Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder
Astor Piazzolla: "Bordel 1900" from "L'Histoire du Tango"
Stephanie Jutt, flute and Dane Richeson, marimba
Cactus Pear Music Festival, San Antonio, Texas
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9"
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with conductor Andreas Delfs
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota
Antonin Dvorak: Scherzo and Finale from the Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81
Violinists Christian Tetzlaff and Antje Weithaas, violist Kim Kashkashian, cellist Boris Pergamenschikow and pianist Lars Vogt
Spannungen Chamber Music Festival, Heimbach, Germany
Josef Haydn: Piano Concerto in D, Hob. XVIII/11
Pianist and conductor Rudolf Buchbinder with the Vienna Philharmonic
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
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