While he was composing it, the working title for one of Aaron Copland's most beloved works was simply, "Ballet for Martha." Martha was Martha Graham, and just before it premiered, the ballet got its name, "Appalachian Spring." We'll hear music from "Appalachian Spring" on today's show, courtesy of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in the southern hills of Vermont.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049: III. Presto
Alexander Schneider, violin; Ornulf Gulbransen, flute; Nacy Dalley, flute; Marlboro Festival Orchestra: Pablo Casals, cond.
Francisco Tarrega: Capricho Arabe
Jason Vieaux, guitar
Strings Music Pavilion, Steamboat Springs, CO
William Bolcom: Let Evening Come (song cycle): II. 'Tis not that Dying hurts us so (text: Emily Dickinson)
Hyunah Yu, soprano; Samuel Rhodes, viola; Benjamin Hochman, piano
Marlboro Concert Hall - Marlboro Music Festival; Marlboro, Vermont
Schumann: Spanische Liebeslieder, Op. 138: X. Vista ciega, luz oscura
Emily Bullock and Junko Watanabe, sopranos; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Thomas Meglioranza, baritone; Renana Gutman & Richard Goode, piano four hands
Marlboro Concert Hall, Marlboro, Vermont
This weeks contestant is Joseph Tamborino from Walnut Creek, CA.: Piano Puzzler
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
Anna Polonsky, piano; Yonah Zur, violin; Lily Francis, violin; Julianne Lee, violin; Sarah Kapustin, violin; Rachel Ku, Viola; Mark Holloway, viola; Earl Lee, cello; Wei Yu, cello; Nathan Farrington,
Marlboro Concert Hall, Marlboro, Vermont
Hour 2
Isaac Albeniz: (trans. Russ): Sevilla
Christopher Parkening, guitar
Jacob van Eyck: The English Nightingale
Marion Verbruggen, recorder virtuoso
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Faure: After a Dream (encore)
Joshua Bell, violin; Jeremy Denk, piano
Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 2
Martina Filjak, piano; Cleveland Orchestra; Jahja Ling, conductor
Severance Hall, Cleveland, OH
Luigi Legnani: Two Caprices: Caprices Nos. 22 + 29
Silviu Ciulei, guitar
Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
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