Composer Nico Muhly had a mad, brilliant idea for a new piece this year. He looked at the world around him, at the way people and animals, even insects, moved around. And the more he thought about it, about the rhythm and grace and power involved in getting from point A to point B, the more he thought he could make music out of it. And he was right. Today, we'll hear the world premiere of Gait, by Nico Muhly, from a concert last month at the Proms in London.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Leos Janacek: First movement from In the Mists
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Eugene Ysaye: Amitie for Two Violins and Orchestra, Op. 26
Renaud Capucon and Joshua Bell, violins, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding, conductor
Verbier Festival and Academy, Verbier, Switzerland
Leos Janacek: Mladi (Youth Suite)
Festival Musicians
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ranaan Meyer: Wyoming 307 and Forget About It
Time for Three
Music from Angel Fire, Las Vegas, New Mexico
Hour 2
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Rondo in D Minor, Wq. 61, No. 4, H. 290
Mikhail Pletnev, piano
Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina: Exultate Deo
The Odhecaton Ensemble, Paolo da Col, director
Regensburg Early Music Days, Regensburg, Germany
Jacob van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-hof (Psalm 118)
Bolette Roed, recorder
Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Nico Muhly: Gait
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Vasily Petrenko, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sinfonia in C, Wq. 182, No. 3
The Holland Baroque Society, Stefano Rossi, director
Regensburg Early Music Days, Regensburg, Germany
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