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Reminiscences

Composer Gao Hong plays the pipa, a lute-like Chinese instrument.Provided

July 15, 2022

Covid travel restrictions kept Gao Hong from visiting her family in China, so she reminisced about her childhood to comfort herself and channeled that nostalgia into a new piece for Pipa and Bassoon. Join us today to hear Gao Hong play her new concerto, "Reminiscences of My Hometown," from a recent concert in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme Op. 36, Enigma Movement 17 "Nimrod"
Minnesota Orchestra | Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
Album: Minnesota Orchestra at One Hundred
Minnesota Orchestra 1002038

Tomaso Albinoni: Concerto for Oboe in D minor, Op. 9 No 2: Movement 2
Sandy Stimson, Oboe | Baroque Music Montana Ensemble | Carrie Krause, conductor
Baroque Music Montana, First Presbyterian Church, Bozeman, MT

Jessie Montgomery: Voodoo Dolls
Helen Chang Haertzen and Sophia Mockler, violins | Gareth Zehngut, viola | Erik Wheeler, cello | David Williamson, bass
Musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN

Cesar Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
David Coucheron and Helen Hwaya Kim, violins | Catherine Lynn, viola | Brad Ritchie, cello | Elizabeth Pridgen, piano
Atlanta Chamber Players, Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Atlanta, GA

Hour 2

John Playford: Newcastle/Splendid Schilling
Gao Hong, Pipa | Belladonna
Album: Gathering/Hui
Ten Thousand Lakes

Father Philipp Jakob Rittler: Sonata a 7
Tempesta di Mare | Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone, Directors
Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Concert Series, Episcopal Cathedral, Philadelphia,  PA

Carlos Chavez: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonia India)
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw | Christian Vasquez, conductor
Witold Lutoslawski Polish Radio Concert Studio, Warsaw, Poland

Gao Hong: Nostalgia
Gao Hong, Pipa | Gabriel Campos Zamora, clarinet | Erik Wheeler, cello | Nikki Melville, Piano
International Friendship Through the Performing Arts, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN

Gao Hong: Reminiscences of My Hometown: Double Concerto for Pipa Bassoon and Orchestra
Gao Hong, Pipa | Ye Yu, Bassoon | Kenwood Symphony Orchestra | Dennis Friesen-Carper, conductor
International Friendship through the Performing Arts, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN