When Edgar Meyer was growing up, there was sort of a family tradition... his father and two uncles played the double bass. Now, Edgar Meyer is THE great double bass virtuoso of our time. On Tuesday's Performance Today, hear him play a Bottesini double bass concerto with the Nashville Symphony. Roderick Cox guest-hosts.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Robert Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6; No 17 Wie aus der Ferne
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze, Fantasie
Decca 4782280
Franz Schubert: Notturno in E-flat major, Op. 148, D. 897
Sasha Kazovsky, violin; Amit Even-Tov, cello; Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Tippet Rise, LLC, The Domo, Fishtail, MT
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61: Movements 3 & 4
Aspen Chamber Symphony; David Robertson, conductor
Aspen Music Festival and School, Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, CO
Black History Spotlight: Harry Lawrence Freeman
Michael Abels: Delights and Dances
Chicago Sinfonietta; Harlem Quartet; Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Delights and Dances
Cedille 90000 141
Hour 2
Robert Schumann: Carnaval: Movements 1 & 2
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Kirill Gerstein: Imaginary Pictures
Myrios 13
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
Gil Shaham, violin
Gstaad Musical Summits, Church, Rougemont, Switzerland
Giovanni Bottesini: Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B minor
Edgar Meyer, Double bass; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Nashville Symphony, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN
Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A-flat Major for Horn and Piano, Op. 70
Radovan Vlatkovic, horn; Gloria Chien, piano
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
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