Every Friday, PT features 21st century music. This week, the world premiere of the "Mercury Concerto" by Carter Pann. 20 minutes of virtuosic music for flute and orchestra, inspired by the real-life love story of the flutist who played the premiere. (And...Carter Pann says there is a subtle hint of classic 70s rock in the opening movement.)
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Debussy: Sonata for violin and piano in G minor: III. Finale: Tres anime
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin; Pavel Gililov, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in B minor, op. 32, no. 10
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
Sanibel, FL
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra; Dmitry Sitkovestsky, conductor
Castello di Amorosa, Calistoga, CA
Maurice Ravel: Sheherazade
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; London Symphony Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Barbican Hall, London
Hour 2
Franz Xaver Scharwenka: Spanisches Standchen
Stephan Hough, piano
Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2
Jupiter String Quartet
Memorial Chapel, Union College, Schenectady NY
Carter Pann: Mercury Concerto (flute concerto - world premiere)
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; Alastair Willis, conductor; Christina Jennings, flute
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX
Sergei Taneyev: Prelude and Fugue in G# minor, Op. 29
Natalia Morozova, piano; Vitaly Yunitskiy, piano
Pauline Chapel, Quirinale Palace, Rome, Italy
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Marc-Andre Hamelin):: Lullaby (encore) (for left hand only)
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Memorial Chapel, Union College, Schenectady, New York
Anton Rubinstein: Melody in F (encore)
Stephen Hough, piano
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
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