Yurui "Rain" Hou loves how chamber music is like conversation and how the composer gets to construct the conversation note by note. Hou is 19 years old and a student at Columbia University in New York City, but don't discount her music because of her age. On today's show, we'll hear a piece Rain Hou composed for the Emerging Composers Intensive in Carmel Valley, California.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Edvard Grieg: Solveig's Song from Peer Gynt
Yo-Yo Ma, cello | Kathryn Stott, piano
Album: Songs of Comfort and Hope
Sony Classical 886448775010
Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Shai Wosner: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
Emanuel Ax, piano | Yo-Yo Ma, cello | Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Verbier Festival, Combins Hall, Verbier, Switzerland
Claude Debussy, arr. Arthur Luck: Clair de Lune
ROCO | Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX
Yurui "Rain" Hou: April is the Cruelest Month - for Violin and Piano
Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, violin | Drew Petersen, piano
Emerging Composers Intensive, Walden Theater, Carmel Valley, CA
Hour 2
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon
Misa Mead, euphonium | Benjamin Powell, piano
Album: Souvenir
Bocchino Music 127
Margaret Brouwer: Art of Sailing at Dawn
Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Cleveland Institute of Music, Kulas Hall, Cleveland, OH
Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51: Movements 1-2
Ying Quartet
Interlochen Presents, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen, MI
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Household Music: Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes
Arturo Delmoni and Michael Roth, violins | Katarzyna Bryla-Weiss, viola | Peter Sanders, cello
Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, VT
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