Korngold Quartet no. 3; Scaramouche
February 4th, 2008
9:00 p.m.
In this broadcast the Aron String Quartet performs a beautiful and seldom-heard chamber work: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Quartet No. 3. Plus Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche, for clarinet and piano, performed by Sabine Meyer.
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Copland and Shostakovich: Wartime Compositions
January 28th, 2008
9:00 p.m.
This week, works by Shostakovich and Copland, performed by the Beaux Arts Trio, and violinist Elmar Oliveira and pianist Robert Konig.Today the Beaux Arts Trio is one of the most famous, and most admired, classical ensembles in the world--pianist Menahem Pressler, violinist Daniel Hope, and cellist Antonio Meneses. Paired with the Shostakovich Trio, we have Aaron Copland's Sonata for Violin and Piano, finished in Hollywood in 1942, during Copland's work on his score for the film The North Star. The sonata was dedicated to the memory of a friend who died in the war, Lieutenant Harry H. Dunham.
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Chamber Music with Steven Isserlis and Friends
January 21th, 2008
9:00 p.m.
String quartet aficionados in particular will want to sample this week's program, offering quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven and Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen, who adds an oboe. In this broadcast, you'll hear Austria's Artis Quartett Wien in one of the last great Beethoven masterworks in the string quartet genre: Opus 127 in E-flat major, finished in 1824 after the premiere of the composer's Ninth Symphony. And, from the U.S., the talented Corigliano Quartet, known for its dedication to the contemporary repertoire, teams up with oboist Thomas Gallant.
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The Corigliano Quartet and the Artis Quartett Wien
January 14th, 2008
9:00 p.m.
String quartet aficionados in particular will want to sample this week's program, offering quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven and Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen, who adds an oboe. In this broadcast, you'll hear Austria's Artis Quartett Wien in one of the last great Beethoven masterworks in the string quartet genre: Opus 127 in E-flat major, finished in 1824 after the premiere of the composer's Ninth Symphony. And, from the U.S., the talented Corigliano Quartet, known for its dedication to the contemporary repertoire, teams up with oboist Thomas Gallant.
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Spotlight on the Cello: Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann
Monday, January 7, 2008
9:00 p.m.
This week, truly virtuosic performances of two of the great works of the cello repertoire, the great Op. 69 cello sonata of Beethoven, and Robert Schumann's Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102. You will hear two of the world's finest cellists: Miklós Perényi, from Hungary and Stephen Isserlis, from Britain. Their collaborators are equally extraordinary: Hungarian pianist András Schiff, who is electrifying audiences with his Beethoven piano sonata recitals, and the gifted young American, Jeremy Denk.
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Venice Baroque Orchestra and Alte Musik Berlin
Monday, December 17, 2007
9:00 p.m.
Gems of the Italian Baroque: Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Tartini, Francesco Geminiani played by the Venice Baroque Orchestra and Alte Musik Berlin.
Soloists from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Monday, December 10, 2007
9:00 p.m.
Accompanying this performance of W.A. Mozart's Gran Partitta is a lecture by Mozart authority Daniel N. Leeson. He gives an extensive background and context for the Partitta, and for the Library's original manuscript of the work—plus its impresario, the famous Viennese clarinetist Anton Stadler. An extraordinary composition, almost symphonic in concept, the Gran Partitta is the jewel of the 18th century's Harmoniemusik genre for wind ensemble.
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Camerata Ireland with Barry Douglas
Monday, December 3, 2007
9:00 p.m.
Pre-concert presentation: "A Northern Ireland Perspective," Philip Hammond, Creative Director of the Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, interviews pianist and conductor Barry Douglas at the Library of Congress, March 23, 2007.
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Bill Charlap and Luciana Souza: The American Songbook meets Brazilian Jazz
Monday, November 26, 2007
9:00 p.m.
A special double bill spotlighting two remarkable artists from the worlds of jazz and popular song. The American pianist Bill Charlap and Brazilian-born singer and composer Luciana Souza each inherited a rich, sophisticated musical world view from parents who were brilliant performers and composers.
Württemberg Chamber Orchestra with Arabella Steinbacher, violin; and Mandelring String Quartet
Monday, November 19, 2007
9:00 p.m.
Ruben Gazarian conducts the Württemberg in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Turkish” Concerto, K. 219, with Arabella Steinbacher. Also, the Mandelring Quartet plays Ligeti.
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Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn: Borromeo String Quartet with Wu Han, piano; and Artis-Quartett Wien
Monday, November 12, 2007
9:00 p.m.
In this broadcast you'll hear Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn performed by two formidably talented string quartets, American and Viennese: the Borromeo, with pianist Wu Han, and the Artis Quartet Wien.
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Beethoven to Gershwin: A Quintet of Great Performances from the Coolidge Auditorium
Monday, November 5, 2007
9:00 p.m.
Host Bill McGlaughlin kicks off our new series with music from five stellar concerts at the Library, played by some of the world’s most admired artists. You’ll hear Beethoven and Schumann, a recent work by British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, and a sonata by the founder of the Library’s concert series, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, an accomplished pianist and composer.
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Last Updated: 02/11/2008
