French composer Cesar Franck didn't get much respect for his one and only symphony. One of his critics said it was "an admission of powerlessness." Another said it was "the negation of music." One Paris critic called it "painful, arid and gray music, devoid of grace, charm, and smile." Well, the work of those critics lives on only because the symphony they slandered lives on. It's music written in 1888 by the 66-year-old Cesar Franck. The only Symphony he ever wrote. We'll hear from a concert in Nashville. Gilbert Varga conducting the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Georg Philip Telemann: Burlesque de Don Quixote (Don Quixote Suite) - I. Ouverture
Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra; Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 97, "archduke" - 1. Allegro moderato
Morgenstern Trio
Kunstraum Klosterkirche, Traunstein; Traunstein Summer Concerts
Georg Philipp Telemann: Gulliver's Suite, for two violins
Livia Sohn, violin; Geoff Nuttall, violin
Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
Johann Sebastian Bach: Invention No. 6
Yang Wei, pipa; Daxun Zhang, bass
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Cesar Franck: Symphony in d minor, M. 48 - 2. Allegretto; 3. Allegro non troppo
Gilbert Varga, conductor; Nashville Symphony
Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN
Hour 2
Stephen Hough: On Falla
Stephen Hough, piano
John Dowland: Set of Four Songs
Snow Consort; Bolette Roed, director
Seminar Church, Paradyz, Poland
Franz Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor
Perfchat Calidore String Quartet
Ted Mann Concert Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43
Stephen Hough, piano; Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
Music Centre, Helsinki, Finland
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