Pianist Sara Davis Buechner says that music takes her to a place where she feels completely herself, especially the music of Mozart. Learn more about Sara Davis Buechner and hear her play a sonata by Mozart on today's show.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 III. Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
Anthony McGill, clarinet | Pacifica Quartet
Album: Mozart & Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
Cedille Records
James Lee III: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet
Anthony McGill, clarinet | The Pacifica Quartet
University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA
Josef Suk: Meditation on the old Czech Chorale St. Wenceslas, Op. 35a
Tessa Lark, violin | Erin Keefe, violin | Jonathan Vinocour, viola | Yegor Dyachkov, cello
Seattle Chamber Music Society, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA
Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Ballad in A Minor, Op. 33
Sewanee Symphony | Kalena Bovell, conductor
Sewanee Summer Music Festival, The University of the South, All Saints’ Chapel, Sewanee, TN
Hour 2
Florence Price: Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, from Five Folksongs in Counterpoint
Catalyst Quartet
Chamber Music Northwest, Mixon Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, OH
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 1 No. 1: Movement 1 Allegro
Tai Murray, violin | Mark Kosower, cello | Stewart Goodyear, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society, The Center for Chamber Music, Seattle, WA
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
Catalyst Quartet
Maverick Concerts, Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock, NY
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 15
Sara Davis Buechner, piano
Album: Mozart: Piano Sonatas
Connoisseur Society 4202
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