If you're looking for a place where traditional concert etiquette is staunchly observed, then Amsterdam's Concertgebouw is generally a good example. So you have to imagine that a performance was particularly good to inspire a Concertgebouw audience to applaud lustily between movements of a concerto. Hear what inspired this outbreak of enthusiasm when Leonidas Kavakos plays Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Jaap van Zweden and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Sir Edward Elgar: "Elegy for Strings"
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia in G for Strings and Continuo, RV 146
The Venice Baroque Orchestra with conductor Andrea Marcon
Emanuel Church, Boston
Frederic Chopin: Ballade No. 3, Op. 38
Pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Etude Tableau," Op. 39, No. 9
Pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul
Robert Schumann: "Zart und singend" from "Davidsbundlertanze," Op. 6
Pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa
Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, St. Paul
Sir Edward Elgar: "Froissart" Overture
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with conductor Christoph Konig
Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai, China
Hour 2
Peter Tchaikovsky: Nocturne, Op. 19, No. 4
Cellist William de Rosa
Antonio Martin y Coll: "Diferencias sobre las Folias"
Hesperion XXI
Musica Mundi Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Arianna Savall: Song for Harp and Voice
Soprano and harpist Arianna Savall
Musica Mundi Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
Violinist Leonidas Kavakos with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Jaap van Zweden
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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