The serious and the silly from Marlboro Music, in Vermont. We'll hear an astonishing 2007 performance that exemplifies the Marlboro practice of teaming young professionals with chamber music veterans: the then 17-year-old violin phenom Benjamin Beilman with an ensemble that includes venerable violist Samuel Rhodes, and pianist Richard Goode, co-Artistic Director of Marlboro Music. We'll hear their performance of the f-minor Piano Quintet, by Brahms. With so much intense rehearsal and performance every summer at Marlboro, there are some long-standing traditions for blowing off steam: elaborate pranks, and throwing wadded-up napkins in the dining hall. Half a dozen musicians from this year's festival weigh in on the joy (and the distraction) of Marlboro's napkin balls and pranks.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Frank Bridge: Excerpt from Threads, H. 151
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox, conductor
Johann Georg Pisendel: Sonata in C Minor for Strings and Continuo
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, director
Cite de la Musique, Paris, France
Pierre de la Rue: Sic Deus Dilexit Mundum (For God so Loved the World)
Amarcord
Schwetzingen Festival, Speyer, Germany
Agustin Barrios: La Catedral
Chaconne Klaverenga, guitar
First Presbyterian Church, Toledo, Ohio
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 38 (Spring)
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Hour 2
Robert Schumann: Scherzo from Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44
The Beaux Arts Trio with Samuel Rhodes, viola, Dolf Bettelheim, violin
Joseph Haydn: Presto from Piano Trio in G, Hob. XV:25 (Gypsy Rondo)
Jonathan Biss, piano, Isidore Cohen, violin, Nina Marie Lee, cello
Marlboro Music Festival, Marlboro, Vermont
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34
Richard Goode, piano, Augustin Hadelich and Benjamin Beilman, violins, Samuel Rhodes, viola, Amir Eldan, cello
Marlboro Music Festival, Marlboro, Vermont
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