Simply put, Dora Pejačević was a trailblazer. She became the first Croatian composer to write a concerto in 1913. Then, while serving as a nurse in World War One, she wrote what is considered to be the first modern symphony in Croatian music. On today's show, we'll hear Pejačević's Piano Quartet in D minor from a concert presented by the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, New York.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Florence Price: Elfentanz
Esther Park, piano | Dawn Wohn, violin
Album: Perspectives
Delos
Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast: Movement 3 Sarka
WDR Symphony Orchestra | Ruth Reinhardt, conductor
EBU, Klaus von Bismarck Hall, WDR Broadcasting House, Cologne, Germany
Franz Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor, D 821
Eric Wong, viola | Esther Park, piano
Geneva Music Festival, Froelich Hall, Gearan Center for the Performing Arts, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Jorg Widmann: 7 Capricci
Kebyart Ensemble
EBU, Auditorio 400, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Hour 2
Dora Pejacevic: Valse de concert, Op. 21
Natasa Veljkovic, piano
Album: Dora Pejacevic: The Complete Piano Works
CPO 5550032
Dora Pejacevic: Piano Quartet, Op. 25
Juliana Athayde, violin | Joshua Newburger, viola | David Ying, cello | Chiao-Wen Cheng, piano
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, Beston Hall at Nazareth University, Rochester, NY
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100: Mvt. 1
National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic | Joseph Young, conductor
National Orchestral Institute + Festival, Elsie and Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD
Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. Levon Atovmyan: Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano
Nikki Chooi, violin | Timothy Chooi, violin | Clayton Stephenson, piano
Hayden's Ferry Chamber Music Series, Tempe Center For The Arts, Tempe, AZ
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