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The beaux arts trio plays schubert

Violinist Daniel Hope delivers another audio diary entry from the Beaux Arts Trio's final year together. They'll answer the question of how they got their name, and read a fan letter from the Faux Arts Trio. Then they'll play some Schubert in San Francisco, at the last concert of their last U.S. tour.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Ludwig van Beethoven: First movement from Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight")
Pianist Murray Perahia

David Popper: "Requiem" for Three Cellos and Piano, Op. 66
Cellists Christopher Costanza, Alisa Weilerstein and Edward Arron, and pianist Charles Wadsworth
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
The Orchestra of the Suisse Romande with conductor Bertrand de Billy
Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

Hour 2

Manuel De Falla: "Jota" and "Polo" from "Suite Populaire Espagnole"
Daniel Hope, violin, and Sebastian Knauer, prepared piano

John Dowland: "The Right Honourable Robert, Earle of Essex, his Galliard" and "Fantasie"
Hopkinson Smith, lute
Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, Cooperstown, New York

Franz Schubert: Second, third and fourth movements from Piano Trio in E-flat, Op. 100, D. 929
The Beaux Arts Trio
Herbst Theater, San Francisco

Jean Sibelius: "Valse Triste," Op. 44, No. 1
The German Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Bremen with conductor Paavo Jarvi
Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany

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