Composer Louis Spohr came up with the idea of a double quartet; not really an octet, but two string quartets, side by side, having a musical conversation. On Friday's Performance Today, hear Louis Spohr's Double String Quartet No. 1, from a concert at the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Piccolo in C Major: Movement 1 Allegro non molto
Jean-Pierre Rampal, piccolo; I Solisti Veneti; Claudio Scimone, conductor
Vivaldi Flute Concertos
Sony 45623
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite for Chamber Ensemble
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center musicians
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Residency, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Op. 8, La Primavera "Spring"
New York Philharmonic; Frank Huang, conductor
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No. 4
Venice Baroque Orchestra; Andrea Marcon, conductor
University of Georgia, Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA
Hour 2
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in D major, K479
Yevgeny Sudbin, piano
Domenico Scarlatti: 18 Sonatas
Bis 2138
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26
Grand Teton Festival Orchestra; Donald Runnicles, conductor
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Hall, Jackson Hole, WY
Louis Spohr: Double String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 65
Adam Barnett-Hart, Jessica Lee, Aaron Boyd, Soovin Kim, violins; Roberto Diaz, Pierre Lapointe, violas; Dmitri Atapine, Brook Speltz, cellos
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Nikolai Medtner: Sonata Tragica in C minor, Op. 39 No. 5 (from "Forgotten Melodies")
Yevgeny Sudbin, piano
Tippet Rise, LLC, The Olivier Music Barn, Fishtail, MT
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