In honor of the (approximate) anniversary of the birth of the Bard, violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Rohan de Silva team up for music that Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote for a production of "Much Ado About Nothing." And Claus Peter Flor leads the Dallas Symphony in music from Prokofiev's ballet, "Romeo and Juliet," in Dallas.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Sir William Walton: "Interlude: At the Boar's Head" from "Henry V"
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with conductor Neville Marriner
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Fur Elise"
Pianist Valentina Lisitsa
Sanibel Music Festival, Sanibel, Florida
Arvo Part: "Fur Alina"
Pianist Anastasia Markina
Katzin Concert Hall, Tempe, Arizona
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Scene in the Garden" from "Much Ado About Nothing" Suite, Op. 11
Violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Rohan De Silva
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Sergei Prokofiev: Excerpts from the ballet, "Romeo and Juliet"
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra with conductor Claus Peter Flor
The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
Hour 2
Dmitri Kabalevsky: Musical Sketches to "Romeo and Juliet"
The Moscow Symphony Orchestra with conductor Dmitri Kitaenko
Francis Poulenc: Excerpt from the first movement of the Trio for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano
The Wosner Shifrin Turkovic Trio
Kaul Auditorium, Portland, Oregon
Leonid Bashmakov: "Paasiaissunnuntain Iikossi" and "Paasiaisen Eksapostilaari"
Cappella Romana with conductor Rev. Ivan Moody
St. Mary's Cathedral, Portland, Oregon
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto No. 10 in C, Op. 6
The Holland Baroque Society with conductor Matthew Halls
Jacobikerk, Utrecht, the Netherlands
A musical conversation with Chinese pipa virtuoso Gao Hong
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Russian Easter Festival Overture"
The BBC Symphony Orchestra with conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
The Royal Albert Hall, London, England
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