The PT debut of an innovative recorder quartet from Germany: "Quartet New Generation." They proudly proclaim that the recorder is suitable for *any* kind of music, from Renaissance madrigals to Euro techno dance music. We'll hear "QNG" play a smoky tango on four of their biggest (and lowest) recorders, in concert at the 2009 Ojai Festival. We'll follow that with a tango for trumpet and orchestra, from soloist Tine Thing Helseth and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in Oslo, as they play Astor Piazzolla's "Oblivion."
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Dmitri Shostakovich: Allegretto from Symphony No. 15, Op. 141
The Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn with conductor Roman Kofman
Geri Bollinger: "Tangorganito"
Quartet New Generation
Ojai Music Festival, Ojai, California
Astor Piazzolla: "Oblivion"
Trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and conductor Andrew Manze
Norwegian Opera House, Oslo, Norway
Traditional (Arranged by Samuel Adler): "Spin, Dreidel, Spin"
The Spivey Hall Children's Choir with conductor Martha Shaw
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Antonin Dvorak: "The Golden Spinning Wheel"
The Central German Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Roman Kofman
Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany
Aldebrando Subissati: "Exortum Est," from Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo, MI 0034
Violinist Agata Sapiecha, organist Lilianna Stawarz, and theorbist Anna Kowalska
Witold Lutoslawski Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Hour 2
Mikhail Glinka: Nocturne in F Minor ("La Separation")
Pianist Alexei Lubimov
Anonymous: "Joy of Heaven"
The Seattle Pro Musica Chorus with percussionist Timothy Helming and conductor Karen P. Thomas
Town Hall, Seattle
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 53
Pianist Alexei Lubimov with the Russian National Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Arnold Bax: Quintet for Oboe and Strings
Oboist James Austin Smith, violinists Lily Francis and Arnaud Sussmann, violist Paul Neubauer, and cellist Fred Sherry
OK Mozart Festival, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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