If it were a Hollywood movie from the 1940s, the plot would read something like, "Hero and heroine unjustly kept apart. Years pass. Hardship ensues. At long last, hero and heroine are reunited." Today's show isn't a Hollywood movie, but it does feature music by Erich Korngold, who wrote for Hollywood films in the 1940s. And we'll hear the story of a priceless Guarneri violin that got to play Korngold's Violin Concerto, after being kept away from it for a half century.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Franz Schubert: The Bee, from Bagatelles, Op. 13, No. 9
Renaud Capucon, violin, Jerome Ducros, piano
Peter Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentimentale, from Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 51, No. 6
Renaud Capucon, violin, Jerome Ducros, piano
Joseph Shabalala: Inkanyezi
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Wait Chapel, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Adam Katz from Stony Brook, New York
Erich Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
Renaud Capucon, violin, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Daniel Harding, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Hour 2
Alberto Ginastera: Cancion and Danza, from Impresiones de la Puna
Eugenia Zukerman, flute, the Shanghai Quartet
Percy Grainger: Children's March: Over the Hills and Far Away
The St. Olaf College Band, Timothy Mahr, conductor
Skoglund Center Auditorium, Northfield, Minnesota
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet No.4 in A, K. 298
Tom Ottar Andreassen, flute, Frode Larsen, violin, Jon Wien Sonstebo, viola, Emery Cardas, cello
Oslo Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway
Alberto Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes for Chamber Orchestra, Op. 23
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Joel Smirnoff, conductor
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston
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