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Seth Parker Woods is a cellist who whole-heartedly embraces new compositions, artistic innovation and pushes the boundaries of classical music.
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Seth Parker Woods

Cellist Seth Parker Woods is sharing music and stories of people who have long been overlooked. Seth Parker Woods on choosing projects to uplift other voices, on the next Performance Today, from APM.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Edvard Grieg: Lyric Piece, Op. 68: Evening in the Mountains
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Album: Grieg: Holberg Suite
DG 437520

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concerto in A Major, W. 172
Inbal Segev, cello
Jennifer Frautschi, violin | Aaron Boyd, violin | Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, viola | Dmitri Atapine, cello | Scott Pingel, bass | Hyeyeon Park, harpsichord
Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute, Spieker Center for the Arts, Menlo Park, CA

Edvard Grieg: Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song in G minor, Op. 24
Juho Pohjonen, piano
The Frederic Chopin Society, Mairs Concert Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, St Paul, MN

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Lamentations "Black Folk Song Suite" Movement 3 Calvary Ostinato
Seth Parker Woods, cello
Album: Difficult Grace
Cedille

Hour 2

Wynton Marsalis: Blues Symphony movement 5: Big City Breaks
Philadelphia Orchestra | Christian Macelaru, conductor
Album: Blues Symphony: Wynton Marsalis Symphony No. 2
Blue Engine Records 39

Wynton Marsalis: String Quartet No. 1, "At the Octoroon Balls" Movement 3 Creole Contradanzas
Calidore String Quartet
Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain

Philip Glass: Etude No. 6
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA

Charles Martin Loeffler, revised and reconstructed by Graeme Steele Johnson: Octet for two clarinets, harp, two violins, viola, cello and bass
Graeme Steele Johnson, clarinet | David Shifrin, clarinet | Bridget Kibbey, harp | Ani Kavafian, violin | Ida Kavafian, violin | Steven Tenenbom, viola | Peter Wiley, cello | Timothy Cobb, bass
Phoenix Chamber Music Festival, Central United Methodist Church, Phoenix, AZ

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