Putting conductor Gustavo Dudamel in front of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela is a bit like throwing a lit match onto a powder keg. The results are almost always explosive. But it's a superbly controlled burn. Dudamel and the SBSO gave a fiery concert of Latin American music at Carnegie Hall in New York recently. We'll hear highlights in today's show, including Carlos Chavez'"Sinfonia India."
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Second movement from Piano Sonata No. 9 in E, Op. 14, No. 1
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Arturo Marquez: Conga del Fuego Nuevo
The Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion
Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet, Steffen Horn, piano
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)
Boris Giltburg, piano
Wellspring Theater, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Carlos Chavez: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonia India)
The Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Hour 2
Felix Mendelssohn: Song Without Words, Op. 109
Alisa Weilerstein, cello, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Etude-Tableau, Op. 39, No. 6 (Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf)
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Richard Wagner: Prelude to Act III from Lohengrin
The Vienna Philharmonic, Franz Welser-Most, conductor
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio Sonata from Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Sooyun Kim, flute, Alessio Bax, harpsichord, Arnaud Sussmann, violin, Laurence Lesser, cello
Music@Menlo, Atherton, California
Felix Mendelssohn: Three Songs Without Words: Op. 19, No. 6 (Venetian Boat Song), Op. 85, No. 2, and Op. 67, No. 4 (Spinning Song)
Gilbert Kalish, piano
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
Antonin Dvorak: Romance in F Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 11
Michael Ludwig, violin, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Chrysler Hall, Norfolk, Virginia
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