Like many adult siblings, Gil and Orli Shaham don't get to see one another as often as they used to. But the violinist and pianist recently connected up on stage in suburban Atlanta and showed off their musical telepathy on a Mozart Violin Sonata.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Jean-Fery Rebel: First movement from Fourth Sonata in E Minor
Andrew Manze, violin; Richard Egarr, harpsichord; and Japp ter Linden, viola da gamba
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Vocalise"
Cellist Edward Arron and pianist Charles Wadsworth
Spoleto USA Festival, Charleston, South Carolina
Jean-Fery Rebel: "Les Elemens", Symphonie Nouvelle
Tempesta di Mare
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Lark Ascending"
Violinist Nicola Benedetti with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christoph Konig
Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai, China
Hour 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Third movement from Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in B-flat, K. 191
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra with conductor Claudio Abbado and bassoonist Willard Elliot
Mikhail Glinka: Overture in G Minor
The Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Leos Svarovsky
House of Music, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Erich Korngold: Theme from "Kings Row"
The National Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Charles Gerhardt
Igor Stravinsky: First movement from "Ebony Concerto"
Woody Herman's Thundering Herd with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman
Ludwig van Beethoven: Excerpt from second movement of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor
The Philadelphia Orchestra with conductor Leopold Stokowski
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in D, K. 306
Violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Orli Shaham
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
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