Writers have always been advised to stick with what they know. Good thing Aaron Copland didn't follow that advice. After Benny Goodman asked him to write a clarinet concerto, Copland complained, "I can't play a note on the clarinet!" So maybe he couldn't play the clarinet. But he wrote a great concerto for it. Alan Kay performs it in today's show, from a concert at the Windham Chamber Music Festival.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to La Clemenza di Tito
The Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin, conductor
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Mayskaya Noch (May Night) Overture
The RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Alan Buribayev, conductor
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C, from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 846
Robert Henry, piano
The Waldomore Mansion, Clarksburg, West Virginia
Felix Mendelssohn: Fugue in E-flat, Op. 81, No. 4
The Pacifica Quartet
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
Paul Taffanel: Andante Pastoral and Scherzettino
Nicolas Duchamp, flute, Barbara McKenzie, piano
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Ernest Chausson: Poeme for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25
Yossif Ivanov, violin, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Jesus Lopez Cobos, conductor
Metropole Hall, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hour 2
Aaron Copland: Barley Wagons and Grovers Corners
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Peter Tchaikovsky: Waltz-Etude in F Minor, Op. 51
Eduard Kunz, piano
International Chopin Piano Festival, Duszniki Zdroj, Poland
Mark O'Connor: Appalachia Waltz
Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Edgar Meyer, bass, Mark O'Connor, violin
Leonard Bernstein: Waltz from Divertimento for Orchestra
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp, and Piano
Alan R. Kay, clarinet, the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra, Robert Manno, conductor
Windham Chamber Music Festival, Windham, New York
Mikhail Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila, Op. 5
The RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Alan Buribayev, conductor
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
Alexander Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
The Central German Radio Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan, conductor
Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany
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