The Tokyo String Quartet, perhaps surprisingly, has never been based in Tokyo, or even in Japan. Even so, they maintain close ties to Japan. So after this spring's devastating earthquake and tsunami, the members of the Tokyo String Quartet were quick to arrange a benefit concert. We'll hear highlights in today's show, including Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, in its original version for string quartet.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Fourth movement from String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4
The Tokyo String Quartet
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in G Minor for Strings and Continuo
The Academy for Ancient Music, Berlin
Basilica of Notre Dame, Montreal, Quebec
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: First movement from String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421
The Tokyo String Quartet
Battell Chapel, New Haven, Connecticut
Samuel Barber: Adagio from String Quartet, Op. 11
The Tokyo String Quartet
Battell Chapel, New Haven, Connecticut
Felix Mendelssohn: Third movement from String Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 87
The Tokyo String Quartet, Ettore Causa, viola
Battell Chapel, New Haven, Connecticut
Felix Mendelssohn: First movement from Octet for Strings in E-Flat, Op. 20
The Tokyo String Quartet and Linden String Quartet
Battell Chapel, New Haven, Connecticut
Hour 2
Antonin Dvorak: Polonaise from Rusalka
The Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue, conductor
Peter Tchaikovsky: Bluebird Pas de Deux, from the Sleeping Beauty
The San Francisco Symphony, James Gaffigan, conductor
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut Cervus
The St. Olaf College Choir, Anton Armstrong, director
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Antonin Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53
Veronika Eberle, violin, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, conductor
Beethovenhalle, Bonn, Germany
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