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Teacher and Student

Teacher and pupil both had wicked senses of humor. But the teacher always maintained a certain emotional distance in his music, more comedy and less pathos. It was the student who ventured into darker emotional corners. In today's show, a work by the student, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His String Quartet No. 15 is almost unrelentingly dark. Mozart dedicated the work to his teacher, the sunny, funny Joseph Haydn.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: March No. 1 in D, K. 335
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Jennifer Higdon: Stomp, from Short Stories
The Ancia Saxophone Quartet
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Minneapolis

Frederic Chopin: Polonaise No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 40, No. 2
Barry Douglas, piano
Parish Church, Santa Cristina d'Aro, Spain

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 15 in D Minor, K. 421
The St. Lawrence String Quartet
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina

Mike Block: Jurjina
Mike Block, cello
New Directions Cello Festival, Ithaca, New York

Hour 2

Ludwig van Beethoven: Third movement from Piano Trio in E-flat, Op. 63
The Beethoven Project Trio

James MacMillan: Fanfare Upon One Note
The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 (Pastoral)
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England

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