Composer Gabriela Lena Frank says when she discovered Alberto Ginastera's music, a whole new range of expressive possibilities opened up for her. Gaby Lena Frank helps us celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with music from Argentina: Alberto Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 2.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Heitor Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No. 6 Movement 2: Allegretto
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Album: Villa-Lobos: String Quartets, Vol. 1
DORIAN 90205
Harry T. Burleigh: Southland Sketches
Samuel Nebyu, violin | Charles Abramovic, piano
Lucerne Festival, St Luke's Church, Lucerne, Switzerland
Harry T. Burleigh: There Is a Balm in Gilead
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Album: In Bright Mansions
Curb
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, Op. 73 'Emperor': Movements 2-3
Razvan Dragnea, piano | Romanian Radio National Orchestra | Christoph Konig, conductor
ROROR, Mihail Jora Concert Hall, Bucharest, Romania
Alberto Ginastera: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 26: I. Allegro rustico
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Album: Ginastera: Complete String Quartets
Mode Records
Hour 2
Alexander Glazunov: Chant du Menestrel Op. 71
Mischa Maisky, cello | Orchestre de Paris | Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Album: Adagio - Mischa Maisky
DG 435781
Alexander Glazunov: Idyll, from 'Two pieces for orchestra, Op. 14'
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra | Zhang Yi, conductor
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Concert Hall, Symphony Hall, Shanghai, China
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, op. 83
Clayton Stephenson, piano
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, TCU Van Cliburn Concert Hall, Fort Worth, TX
Anonymous, arr. Juan Perez Bocanegra: Himno Procesional Hanacpachap cussicuinin
Hesperion XXI & La Capella Reial De Catalunya | Jordi Savall, conductor
Album: Christophorus Columbus - Lost Paradises
Alia Vox
Tania Leon: Indigena
Continuum | Tania Leon, conductor
Album: Tania Leon: Indigena
Anthology of Recorded Music
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