In today's show, two stories of inspiration - one sweet, one sinister. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma appeared on Sesame Street in the late 1980s, expertly accompanied by a trio of honkers and dingers. Three-year-old Matthew Zalkind was watching, and fell in love with the cello right then and there. Now all grown up, he plays a Faure trio at Marlboro. And Igor Stravinsky's frightening run-in with a gang of Nazi thugs in 1932 fueled the dark emotions of his Symphony in Three Movements. We'll hear a performance by the New York Philharmonic.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Samuel Barber: Canzone for Flute and Piano, Op. 38a
Jeanne Baxtresser, flute, Israela Margalit, piano
Antonio Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto No. 7 in A Minor, RV 497
Christian Kunert, bassoon, the Potsdam Chamber Academy
Movimentos Festival, Wolfsburg, Germany
Claude Debussy: Children's Corner
The Calefax Reed Quintet
Falany Performing Arts Center, Waleska, Georgia
Claude Debussy: The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, from Preludes, Book 1
Christopher O'Riley, piano
Samuel Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3
Nathaniel Webster, baritone, Elena Urioste and Benjamin Beilman, violins, Helene Clement, viola, Marcy Rosen, cello
Marlboro Music Festival, Marlboro, Vermont
Samuel Barber: First Essay for Orchestra, Op. 12
The New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
Hour 2
Igor Stravinsky: Second movement from Concerto in E-flat (Dumbarton Oaks)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood, conductor
Anonymous: Basse Danse Jouissance Vous Donnerai (I will Give you Pleasure)
The Toronto Consort, David Fallis, artistic director
Town Hall, Seattle
Gabriel Faure: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120
Gabriele Carcano, piano, Scott St. John, violin, Matthew Zalkind, cello
Marlboro Music Festival, Marlboro, Vermont
Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
The New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
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