Pianist Garrick Ohlsson says that whenever he announces a Chopin nocturne as an encore, there's always a collective swoon in the audience, "aaahhhhh." Ohlsson will make us swoon with two by Chopin: a nocturne and a scherzo, from a concert at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts. Plus, you may have heard a number of Haydn symphonies (he wrote 104 of them). Today, we'll hear how it all began, when the Neuss Chamber Orchestra performs Haydn's Symphony No. 1.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
George Frideric Handel: Excerpts from Water Music Suite, HWV 349
Ensemble Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini, director
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion
Koh Gabriel Kameda, violin, the Mexican State Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Batiz, conductor
Granada International Music Festival, Granada, Spain
Alberto Ginastera: Argentinian Dance No. 3 (The Dance of the Intrepid Cowboy)
Alpin Hong, piano
Strings Music Festival, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Hugo Wolf: Five Songs from the Italian Songbook
Henk Neven, baritone, Malin Christensson, soprano, Hans Eijsacker, piano
The BBC Proms, London, England
Eugene Ysaye: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor
Julia Fischer, violin
The BBC Proms, London, England
Jose and Joan Baptista Pla: Concerto in D for Two Oboes, Strings, and Continuo
Ensemble Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini, director
St. Genis Church, Torroella de Montgri, Spain
Hour 2
Alexander Scriabin: Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1, and Etude in F-sharp Minor, Op. 42, No. 2
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 1 in D
The Neuss Chamber Orchestra, Joachim Neugart, conductor
Sundin Music Hall, St. Paul
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in D-flat, Op. 27, and Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
The Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, Massachusetts
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
The Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
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