Franz Schubert's music can sound warm and sunny one moment, then suddenly become angst-ridden, and just as quickly, go right back to being bright and cheerful. Pianist Shai Wosner joins host Fred Child to talk about the seductively fickle emotional world of Schubert. And Wosner gives a thrilling performance of Schubert's Sonata in A Major (D. 664). Speaking of emotional quick-change artists -- Johannes Brahms used a similar technique in his Hungarian Dances, turning on a dime from brooding reflection to boisterous celebration. We'll hear five Hungarian Dances from a concert last month in Paris.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Franz Schubert: Excerpt from Six Moments Musicaux, D. 780
Shai Wosner, piano
The Frederic Chopin Society, St. Paul
Joseph Haydn: Hungarian National March
L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble, Carin van Heerden, conductor
Church of St. John the Baptist, Oberstdorf, Germany
Henry Purcell: March
Arte Dei Suonatori
Frederiksberg Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
Francis Poulenc: March, Op. 88
The Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Christian Zacharias, conductor
Metropole Hall, Lausanne, Switzerland
Claude Debussy: La Plus que Lente
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin, Sergio and Odair Assad, guitars
Debussy
Perfchat with Shai Wosner, Part I: Perfchat
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 13 in A, D. 664
Shai Wosner, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 17 to 21
The French National Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, conductor
Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France
Hour 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to The Impresario
The Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin, conductor
William Byrd: In Nomine
Piffaro
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Henry Purcell: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat, Z. 791
Collegium Musicum 90
Wilanow Palace, Warsaw, Poland
Ernst Toch: Third movement from Divertimento, Op. 37, No. 1
Juliette Kang, violin, Thomas Kraines, cello
Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
Francois Couperin: Wandering Souls
Angela Hewitt, piano
Richard Strauss: Divertimento, Op. 86 (After Couperin)
The Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Kristjan Jarvi, conductor
Metropole Hall, Lausanne, Switzerland
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