Beethoven revolutionized the writing of symphonies, string quartets, and sonatas. And there's at least one other area where he is the measure of every composer who follows: the Piano Trio, music for piano, violin, and cello. Beethoven wrote a dozen piano trios full of seductive melodies, with harmonies of surprising tension and resolution. On Thursday's Performance Today we'll hear one of those revolutionary piano trios by Beethoven, from a special concert at the Music@Menlo Festival in Menlo Park, California.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Claude Debussy: Sarabande (arr. Maurice Ravel)
French National Orchestra; Eliahu Inbal, conductor
Franz Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade, Op. 2, D. 119 (arr. Franz Liszt)
Yuja Wang, piano
Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX
Charles Lisberg: The Spinning Wheel
Olga Kern, piano
Halton Theater, Charlotte, North Carolina
Leo Delibes: Pizzicato, from "Sylvia"
Orchestre National de France; Sofi Jeannin, conductor Cirque d'Hiver
Paris
George Gerswhin: Rialto Ripples Rag
William Bolcom, piano
Igor Stravinsky: Ragtime Windscape (arr. David Jolley)
John C. Borden Auditorium, Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in e-flat Major, op. 70, no. 2
Juho Pohjonen, piano; Benjamin Beilman, violin; David Finckel, cello
The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, CA
Hour 2
J.S. Bach: Three-part Inventions (Sinfonias), BWV 787-801 - No. 1 in C major, No. 2 in C Minor, No. 3 in D major
Janine Jansen, violin; Maxim Rysanov, viola; Torleif Thedeen, cello
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg: Sonata for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo in B-flat Major
Musica Alta Ripa
Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 - 2. Air ("Air on the G string") (arr. Xuefeu Yang)
Xuefei Yang, guitar
Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, MA
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, "Turkish"
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Janine Jansen, violin and leader
Cadogan Hall, London
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