Hour one features two musical punctuations. Richard Strauss' opera, "Capriccio," asks which is more moving - poetry or music? It ends with a question mark, leaving the audience wondering which of two suitors a woman will choose: the poet or the composer. And Wilhelm Stenhammar tacked a big exclamation point onto the title of his jubilant "Excelsior!" In hour two, music based on the works of William Shakespeare: Henry Purcell's "The Fairy Queen" and Erich Korngold's "Much Ado About Nothing."
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Bartolome de Selma y Salaverde: Canzon a 2 Tenori
London Baroque
Wilhelm Stenhammar: Excelsior! Op. 13
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding, conductor
Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden
Claude Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie
Johnny Teyssier, clarinet, Teddy Abrams, piano
Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
Richard Strauss: String Sextet from Capriccio, Op.85
Concertante
Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, Clemson, South Carolina
Francisco Tarrega: Capricho Arabe
Pepe Romero, guitar
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Bartolome de Selma y Salaverde: Canzon Vinte
Ensemble Anthonello with Rafael Bonavita, baroque guitar, Antonio Carrilho, recorder
Cultural and Congress Centre, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Hour 2
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1
Maria Joao Pires, piano
Henry Purcell: Suite - Chaconne and If Love's a Sweet Passion, from the Fairy Queen
Arte Dei Suonatori
Frederiksberg Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488
Maria Joao Pires, piano, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ivan Fischer, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Erich Korngold: Suite from Much Ado About Nothing
Jessica Mathaes, violin, Colette Valentine, piano
Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa
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