The tango is a slow and sultry dance. A couple locked in a close embrace, snaking their way around the dance floor. But the tango isn't for the faint of heart. It can be rough, even a bit coarse. Quartet San Francisco delivers a proper tango in today's show: smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside. "Tango Toscana" was written by quartet founder Jeremy Cohen. Plus, pianist Francesco Tristano Schlime gives us a tango from an unexpected source: Igor Stravinsky. And the Cleveland Orchestra performs music from Stravinsky's ballet, "Pulcinella."
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Modest Mussorgsky: Entr'acte from Kovanschina
The Cleveland Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, conductor
Jeremy Cohen: Tango Toscana
Quartet San Francisco
Yoshi's, San Francisco
Isaac Albeniz: Murmurs of the Cove
Pepe Romero, guitar
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most, conductor
Arsht Center, Miami
Igor Stravinsky: Tango
Francesco Tristano Schlime, piano
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Dietrich Buxtehude: Suite in D Minor, BuxWV 222, and Toccata in G, BuxWV 165
Francesco Tristano Schlime, piano
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Hour 2
Jean Sibelius: First movement from Suite in E for Violin and Piano
Pekka Kuusisto, violin, Raija Kerppo, piano
Alexander Comitas: Apricot Tree
Sergey Khachatryan, violin
Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden
Levon Eroyan: Variations on an Anatolian Tune
Sahan Arzruni, piano
Merkin Concert Hall, New York City
George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso in G for Flute, Strings and Continuo, Op. 3, No. 3, HWV 314
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, conductor
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
Pekka Kuusisto, violin, the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, Markus Poschner, conductor
Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany
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