"Brooklyn Rider" is musically omnivorous. Every member of this string quartet is classically-trained, but having toured with Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble for ten years now, they're open to musical flavors from around the world. They'll join Fred in the studio for day two of music and conversation. Brooklyn Rider will play the final movement from Dvorak's "American" Quartet, a set of hauntingly beautiful Armenian folk songs, and a wildly eclectic piece by a member of the group, Colin Jacobsen.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Lev Zhurbin: "Garmoshka"
Cellist Jan Vogler with the Knights and conductor Eric Jacobsen
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 5 and 6
The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Paavo Jarvi
Bela Bartok National Concert Hall, Budapest, Hungary
Astor Piazzolla: "Autumn," from "The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires"
Violinist Lindsay Deutsch with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and conductor Jeffrey Kahane
Royce Hall, Los Angeles
Perfchat with Brooklyn Rider
Antonin Dvorak: Vivace from Quartet in F, Op. 96 ("American")
Brooklyn Rider
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Vartabed Komitas: "Harvest Song," from Armenian Folk Songs
Brooklyn Rider
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Colin Jacobsen: "Sheriff's Lied, Sheriff's Freude"
Brooklyn Rider
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Hour 2
Sergei Prokofiev: Pushkin Waltz No. 2, Op. 120
The Seattle Symphony Orchestra with conductor Gerard Schwarz
Johann Sebastian Bach: Excerpts from Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat, BWV 1010 (transcription for viola)
Violist Maxim Rysanov
The BBC Proms, London, England
Meredith Monk: "Things," from "Three Heavens and Hells"
The Young People's Chorus of New York City with conductor Francisco Núñez
Greene Space, WNYC Radio, New York City
Sergei Prokofiev: Suite from "The Love of Three Oranges," Op. 33
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Charles Dutoit
The BBC Proms, London, England
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