Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han started out as musical colleagues. They fell in love with each other's playing. And it didn't take long before they fell in love with each other. Finckel describes their musical chemistry this way, "For us, it was like that right from the start. And I think that was one of the things that just sent up a signal to us that we were meant to be together somehow, in more ways than one." The husband-and-wife team of David Finckel and Wu Han are in the PT studios today, sharing music and conversation with host Fred Child.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: My Dear Someone
Chris Thile, mandolin and voice
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Perfchat with David Finckel and Wu Han, Part I: Perfchat
Johannes Brahms: First movement from Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38
David Finckel, cello, Wu Han, piano
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul
Claude Debussy: Cello Sonata
David Finckel, cello, Wu Han, piano
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
The World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev, conductor
Orchestra Hall, Chicago
Perfchat with David Finckel and Wu Han, Part II: Perfchat
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Third movement from Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19
David Finckel, cello, Wu Han, piano
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul
Hour 2
Anonymous (Scottish): Joy to the Person of My Love
Ensemble Galilei
Manuel de Falla: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
92nd Street Y, New York City
Enrique Granados: The Flirtations, from Goyescas: Los Majos Enamorados (Goyescas: The Majos in Love), Op. 11
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Alfonso Carlos Miguel: Love Song, from Summer Suite
Ana Belen Tejedor, mandolin, Yiannis Sofos, guitar
GRERT Radio, Athens, Greece
Max Bruch: Romance in F for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 85
Renaud Capucon, viola, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding, conductor
Verbier Festival and Academy, Verbier, Switzerland
Franz Liszt: Liebeslied (Love Song), S. 566
Daniil Trifonov, piano
Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Edvard Grieg: Jeg elsker dig (I love you), Op. 41, No. 3
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Opera House, Sydney, Australia
Edvard Grieg: Du fatter ei Bolgeines evige Gang (A Poet's Heart), Op. 52, No. 3
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Opera House, Sydney, Australia
George Gershwin: He Loves and She Loves
The Lark Quartet
Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, Randolph, Vermont
Harry Connick, Jr.: Recipe for Love
The King's Singers
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
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