The young Robert Schumann wanted to be the greatest pianist in the world. And he had hopes of getting there, until the middle finger of his right hand went numb. We'll hear about the various therapies he tried(including a mechanical finger stretcher that did further damage, and holding his hand in the abdominal cavity of a freshly slaughtered calf) and then we'll revel in a piece he would never have written if his piano dreams had been realized: his Cello Concerto. Maria Kliegel solos with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, in concert in Dublin.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Claude Debussy: Finale from Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Minor
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin, Pavel Gililov, piano
Antonio Caldara: Sinfonia in A Minor for Strings and Continuo
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Cite de la Musique, Paris, France
Biagio Marini: Sonata
Daniel Hope, violin, and friends
Rolf Liebermann Studio, Hamburg, Germany
Antonin Dvorak: Third movement from String Sextet in A, Op. 48
Musicians from the Savannah Music Festival
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Joe Comiskey from Portage, Michigan
Robert Schumann: First movement from Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54
Freddy Kempf, piano, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Junichi Hirokami, conductor
Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong, China
Claude Debussy: Menuet
Leonard and Slava Grigoryan, Guitars
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Hour 2
Leonard Bernstein: Meditation No. 1 from Mass
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op. 12, No. 8
Alon Goldstein, piano
Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Emil Jonason, clarinet, Peter Friis Johansson, piano
Oriol Martorell Hall, Barcelona, Spain
Paul Harvey: Third movement from Three Etudes on Themes of George Gershwin
Todd Palmer, clarinet
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor
Maria Kliegel, cello, the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Gerhard Markson, conductor
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
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