Join us for a special hour co-hosted by Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero, our 2023 PT Classical Woman of the Year. What a treat!
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, arr. Maud Powell: Deep River
Randall Goosby, violin | Zhu Wang, piano
Album: Randall Goosby Plays Florence Price
DG
Traditional: Maoz Tzur
Zamir Chorale of Boston | Joshua Jacobson, conductor
Album: Lights: Music for Chanukah
Afka
Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etudes No. 6 in G Minor "Vision"
Yunchan Lim, piano
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX
Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Randall Goosby, violin | Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | Louis Langree, conductor
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH
Hour 2
Alberto Ginastera: Piano Sonata No. 1, Movement 1 Allegro Marcato
Gabriela Montero, piano
Album: Solatino
EMI
Igor Stravinsky: Piano Sonata, K.043, the "1924" Sonata
Gabriela Montero, piano
Gabriela Montero at Prager, Prager Family Center for the Arts, Easton, MD
Gabriela Montero: Piano Concerto No. 1 "Latin Concerto" Movement 1
Gabriela Montero, piano | Orchestra of the Americas | Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Album: Montero & Ravel: Piano Concertos
Orchid
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Suite No. 2 for two pianos in C Major, Op. 17 Movements 1-2
Martha Argerich, piano | Gabriela Montero, piano
Album: Rachmaninov: Music for Two Pianos
Warner Classics
Gabriela Montero: Left Hand Improvisation, from "Take 1, 20 Reflections on the Americas"
Gabriela Montero, piano
Video Album: "Take 1, 20 Reflections on the Americas"
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