In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of children and young adults were stricken with polio. One of them was violinist Itzhak Perlman, who lost much of the use of his legs when he contracted polio at age 4. Perlman joined host Fred Child recently to talk about his experience with polio, and to discuss efforts at worldwide eradication of the disease. And we'll hear him in a performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Joseph Haydn: First movement from String Quartet in D, Op. 76, No. 5 (Erdody)
The Johannes String Quartet
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio. St. Paul
Max Bruch: Kol Nidrei
Yuri Bashmet, viola and conductor, the Moscow Soloists Chamber Ensemble
Theatre Hall, Ruse, Bulgaria
John Zorn: Kol Nidrei
Ilya Kaler and Perrin Yang, violins, George Taylor, viola, Steven Doane, cello
Francisco Correa de Arauxo: Tiento Tercero de Sexto Tono
La Caravaggia Ensemble, Lluis Coll, director
Barcelona Auditorium, Barcelona, Spain
Perchat with the Johannes String Quartet: Perfchat
Ludwig van Beethoven: Two movements from String Quartet in F, Op. 59, No. 1 (Razumovsky)
The Johannes String Quartet
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Hour 2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fourth movement from Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Marina Piccinini, flute, the Brasil Guitar Duo
Joseph Joachim: Hebrew Melody, Op. 9, No. 1
Daniel Hope, violin, Sebastian Knauer, piano
Wigmore Hall, London, England
Traditional (Arranged by Max Janowski): Reader's Kaddish from the N'ilah Service
Chicago a cappella, Patrick Sinozich, director
Johann Sebastian Bach: First movement from Sonata No. 4 in C Minor for Violin and Piano, BWV 1017
Daniel Hope, violin, Sebastian Knauer, piano
Wigmore Hall, London, England
Douglas Lora: Valsa and Posludio
The Brasil Guitar Duo
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Johannes Brahms: Two movements from Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77
Itzhak Perlman, violin, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem van Otterloo, conductor
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