WGBH Classical Performance Podcast

The Moet Trio plays Ravel - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 09 May 2008 09:54:02 -0400

The Moet Trio is the first ensemble to participate in the New England Conservatory's Professional Piano Trio Training Program - this is quite an honor for the group, and it's well-deserved, as you'll hear in this performance of Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor.
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Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor (1914)
Moet Trio
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Yuri Namkung, violin; Yves Dharamraj, cello; Michael Mizrahi, piano

More information about the trio at
https://www.newamsterdamrecords.com/#Moet_Trio

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April
15th, 2008.

Ensemble Caprice plays Gypsy music of the Baroque - WGBH Classicalb

Fri, 02 May 2008 09:35:48 -0400

The Canadian early music group Ensemble Caprice has been exploring "Gypsy Music" as collected by European scholars and composers in the 17th and 18th centuries, and they've come up with a lively mix! Here's music by Diego Ortiz, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and Andrea Falconieri.
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Ortiz: Recercada primera; Schmelzer: Balletto La bella zingara; and
Falconieri: La Suave Melodia and La Follia.
Ensemble Caprice
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Matthias Maute, recorder and flute; Sophie Larivière, recorder and flute; David Jacques, baroque guitar
More information at http://www.ensemblecaprice.com/

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April 24th, 2008.

Leslie Howard plays Rachmaninov and Borodin - WGBH Classical Performance

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:20:56 -0400

Leslie Howard is one of the foremost interpreters of late romantic piano music, and we were thrilled that he could come to play at WGBH. We'll hear music by Borodin and Rachmaninov.
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Borodin/Howard: Scherzo from Petite Suite (1885); and Rachmaninov: Three Pieces (1917).
Leslie Howard, piano

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, January 29, 2008.
WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston.

http://www.wgbh.org/classical.
email: classical@wgbh.org

Leslie Howard talks about Rachmaninov - WGBH Classical Performance

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:08:48 -0400

Leslie Howard brings us the dramatic background to Rachmaninov's "Three Pieces" of 1917, in conversation with "Classics in the Morning" host Cathy Fuller.

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, January 29, 2008.
WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston.

http://www.wgbh.org/classical.
email: classical@wgbh.org

Stephanie Jutt and Jeffrey Sykes play Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:45:49 -0400

This is the lighter side of Beethoven: a delightful serenade, adapted by the composer from his own Serenade for Flute and Strings. Stephanie Jutt and Jeffrey Sykes are presented in their Boston recital this week by the Pro Musicis Foundation, http://promusicis.org/.
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Beethoven: Serenade for Flute and Piano, Op.41
Stephanie Jutt, flute; Jeffrey Sykes, piano
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More information: http://www.bachdancinganddynamite.org/artists/

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on April 17th, 2008.

Hélène Wickett plays Ravel - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:10:10 -0400

Maurice Ravel was a great admirer of Franz Schubert's music, and the "Valses nobles et sentimentales" are his tribute. Nonetheless this work has Ravel's unmistakable signature sound. The pianist in our live broadcast is Hélène Wickett.
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Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Hélène Wickett, piano
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More info: Look up "Hélène Wickett", at http://www.promusicis.org/

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 25th, 2008.

La Donna Musicale plays Bon

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:02:48 -0400

The ensemble La Donna Musicale champions the works of women composers from the baroque, classical and contemporary periods. In this live broadcast they focus on the music of Anna Bon (1739/40-????).
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Bon: Flute Sonata IV, and "Astra Coeli"
La Donna Musicale
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La Donna Musicale: Na'ama Lion, flute; Sherezade Panthaki, soprano; Gigi Turgeon, violin; Ruth McKay, harpsichord; Laury Gutierrez, viola da gamba and Artistic Director.
More info: http://www.ladm.org/

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on March 27th, 2008.

Heng-Jin Park plays Schumann and Liszt - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:28:20 -0400

Robert Schumann's first published piece is a bit mysterious - It's called "Variations on the name Abegg", but whose name is it? An imaginary character dreamed up by the composer? Or a countess he was in love with for a time? We may never know the answer to the puzzle, but it's a fine piano work, played here by Heng-Jin Park. We also hear Liszt's "Gnomenreigen", the "Round Dance of the Gnomes".

Roger Tapping and Judith Gordon play Bach - WGBH Classical Performance

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:21:15 -0500

Violist Roger Tapping and pianist Judith Gordon get into a wonderful groove in this performance of the third of Bach's Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and piano.
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Bach, J.S.: Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Keyboard in G minor, BWV.1029
Roger Tapping, viola; Judith Gordon, piano
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J.S. Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Keyboard in G minor, BWV.1029
I. Vivace;
II. Adagio;
III. Allegro

More info about Roger Tapping at http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/faculty/tappingR.html
More about Judith Gordon at http://www.smith.edu/music/faculty_gordon.php

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on February 26th, 2008.

Roger and Judy talk about Bach - WGBH Classical Performance

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:07:21 -0500

Violist Roger Tapping and pianist Judith Gordon talk about the high points of playing Bach's G minor Gamba Sonata, in conversation with WGBH host Cathy Fuller.

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on February 26th, 2008.

David Deveau plays Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:19:14 -0500

Beethoven's "Pastorale" Piano Sonata was the focal point of David Deveau's visit to our Boston studios. You can hear his affection for the piece in his playing.
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28, “Pastorale”
David Deveau, piano.
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I. Allegro;
II. Andante;
III. Scherzo (Allegro assai);
IV. Rondo (Allegro ma non troppo)
More info about David Deveau at http://rcmf.org/

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on February 7th, 2008.

David Deveau talks about Beethoven - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:15:55 -0500

David Deveau talks about the beauty of Beethoven's "Pastorale" Sonata, in conversation with WGBH host Cathy Fuller.

More info about David Deveau at http://rcmf.org/

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on February 7th, 2008.

Krista River sings Robert Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:57:07 -0500

Krista River and Judith Gordon bring us Robert Schumann's great song-cycle, "Frauenliebe und Leben", "A Woman's Love and Life", composed in 1840, the year Schumann married Clara Wieck.
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Schumann, Robert: Frauenliebe und Leben, Op.42
Krista River, mezzo-soprano; Judith Gordon, piano
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Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman's Love and Life), Op.42
1. Seit ich ihn gesehen (Since I Saw Him)
2. Er, der Herrlichste von allen (He, the Noblest of All)
3. Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben (I Cannot Grasp or Believe It)
4. Du Ring an meinem Finger (You Ring Upon My Finger)
5. Helft mir, ihr Schwestern (Help Me, Sisters)
6. Süßer Freund, du blickest mich verwundert an (Sweet Friend, You Gaze)
7. An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust (At My Heart, At My Breast)
8. Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan (Now You Have Caused Me Pain for the First Time)

Krista's website: http://kristariver.com/

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on February 4th, 2008.

Krista River talks about Schumann - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:34:21 -0500

Mezzo-soprano Krista River shares her insights into Robert Schumann's song-cycle "Frauenliebe und Leben" with WGBH's Cathy Fuller.

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, February 4th, 2008.

WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston.

http://www.wgbh.org/classical.
email: classical@wgbh.org

Leslie Howard plays Glazunov - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:23:05 -0500

Pianist Leslie Howard has an affinity for the late romantic composers - he's known best for his 97-disc survey of all the piano music of Franz Liszt. When he visited our Fraser Performance Studio, he played a little-known Sonata by Alexander Glazunov.
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Glazunov: Sonata No.1 in B-flat minor, Op.74
Leslie Howard, piano
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More information at http://lesliehowardpianist.com/.
Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, January 29, 2008.
WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston.

http://www.wgbh.org/classical.
email: classical@wgbh.org

Leslie Howard talks about Glazunov - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:33:29 -0500

Leslie Howard was eloquent on the subject of Alexander Glazunov, in conversation with "Classics in the Morning" host Cathy Fuller.

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, January 29, 2008.
WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston.

http://www.wgbh.org/classical.
email: classical@wgbh.org

Tyler Duncan sings Vaughan Williams - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:19:14 -0500

Canadian Baritone Tyler Duncan explores the poetry of Robert Louis Stephenson, in vivid settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams. His collaborator at the piano is Erika Switzer.
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Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
Tyler Duncan, baritone; Erika Switzer, piano
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
(texts by Robert Lois Stevenson)
1. The Vagabond
2. Let Beauty Awake
3. The Roadside Fire
4. Youth and Love
5. In Dreams
6. The Infinite Shining Heavens
7. Whither Must I Wander?
8. Bright is the ring of words
9. I have trod the upward and he downward slope

Tyler's website: http://www.tylerduncan.ca/

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on January 10, 2008.

Joseph Lin plays Bach - WGBH Classical Performance

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:28:03 -0500

Joseph Lin plays Bach's elegant Sonata No.2 for violin alone, in this performance from our archives.
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Bach, J.S.: Violin Sonata No.2 in A minor, BWV.1033
Joseph Lin, violin
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Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on April 20, 2001.

(Note: Joseph Lin's recording with pianist Benjamin Loeb, of music by Korngold, is available on the Naxos label.
http://www.naxos.com/)

http://www.wgbh.org/classical
email: classical@wgbh.org

Peter Orth plays Chopin - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:10:20 -0500

Chopin's Preludes for piano, Op.28, caused a stir when they were first published in 1839. There were 24 of them: one in each of the major and minor keys, and they were very short pieces, one of them only 12 bars long! American pianist Peter Orth, now based in Germany, played them for us.
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Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op.28
Peter Orth, piano.
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More information at http://www.peterorth.de/.
Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, October 5th, 2007.
WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston.

http://www.wgbh.org/classical.
email: classical@wgbh.org

Peter Orth talks about Chopin's Preludes - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:10:03 -0500

Peter Orth felt at a loss for words when program host Richard Knisely asked him to comment on Chopin's Preludes, Op.28... but he does have a couple of things to say!

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, October 5, 2007.
WGBH Classical Performance is a production of WGBH Radio Boston.

http://www.wgbh.org/classical.
email: classical@wgbh.org

Blue Heron sings music for Christmas from England and Burgundy

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:59:15 -0500

The Blue Heron Renaissance Choir performed 15th century music: English carols and French pieces discovered in a Cypriot manuscript, before a live audience of WGBH members.
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Anon. (15th c. English); Guillaume Du Fay; Anon. (15th c. Cypriot MS): Carols and motets for Christmas.
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
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Detailed listing:
1. Anon (15th c. English): Ther is no rose of swych vertu.
2. Anon. (15th c. English): Nowel syng we now al and sum.
3. Guillaume Du Fay (c.1397-1474): Letabundus ("Full of Joy").
4. Anon. (Cypriot MS, c.1413-1422): Hodie puer nascitur/Homo mortalis ("A boy is born today..."/"Man is mortal...").
More information: http://www.blueheronchoir.org/

Recorded in a live broadcast in WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, on December 20th, 2007.

http://www.wgbh.org/classical
email: classical@wgbh.org

Scott Metcalfe talks about music of Cypress in the 15th century - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:53:44 -0500

In conversation with WGBH Classical host Richard Knisely, Blue Heron director Scott Metcalfe answers the question, "Why Cypress?".
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Anon. Cypriot, c. 1413-1422: music for Christmas
Scott Metcalfe (in conversation)
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Recorded in a live broadcast in WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio, on December 20th, 2007.

http://www.wgbh.org/classical
email: classical@wgbh.org

Triple Helix plays Mozart - WGBH Classical Performance

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:24:06 -0500

This Trio in G major is the only Piano Trio Mozart composed with a specific publisher in mind. It was an English musician who published it in 1789. The Boston-based Piano Trio Triple Helix performed it in a live broadcast, along with the Fanny Mendelssohn Trio we heard a few weeks ago on the podcast.
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Mozart: Trio in G major, KV 564
Triple Helix
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Triple Helix: Lois Shapiro, piano; Bayla Keyes, violin; Rhonda Rider, cello. More info at: http://www.triplehelixpianotrio.org/

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio on November 1st, 2007.

http://www.wgbh.org/classical
email: classical@wgbh.org

Louis Schwizgebel-Wang plays Brahms - WGBH Classical Performance Podcast

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:52:30 -0500

The 19-year-old Swiss pianist Louis Schwizgebel-Wang recently won first prize in the 2007 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and stopped by the Fraser Performance Studio to play Brahms, among other things. We had a live audience on hand to greet him!
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Brahms: Rhapsodies, Op.79
Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, piano
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I. No. 1 in B minor
II. No. 2 in G minor

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on October 31st, 2007.

Triple Helix plays Fanny Mendelssohn - WGBH Classical Performance Podcast

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:55:29 -0400

Felix Mendelssohn's older sister, Fanny had tremendous talent and the potential to be a great composer, but her father couldn't bring himself to support her in it. "Music will perhaps become his [i.e. Felix's] profession," he wrote in 1820, "while for you it can and must be only an ornament'". Such were the attitudes toward women. The piano trio Triple Helix plays her Trio in D minor, Op.11.
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Mendelssohn, Fanny: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11.
Triple Helix
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I. Allegro molto vivace
II. Andante espressivo
III. Lied: Allegretto
IV. Allegro moderato
Triple Helix: Lois Shapiro, piano; Bayla Keyes, violin; Rhonda Rider, cello. More info at: http://www.triplehelixpianotrio.org/

Recorded in a live broadcast at WGBH's Studio One on November 2nd, 2007.