On today's show, we'll introduce you to cellist Leland Ko in our latest installment of the 2023 PT Young Artists in Residence series. Leland and pianist Adria Ye join Fred Child for music and conversation at our studio in St. Paul.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Jennifer Higdon: Smash
Third Sound Ensemble
Album: Third Sound - Heard in Havana
Innova
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132: Movement 3 Molto adagio - Andante "Heiliger Dankgesang"
St Lawrence String Quartet
The Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
Piano Puzzler
Contestant: Zachary Simpson calling from Orlando, FL
Jennifer Higdon: Southern Harmony
Helen Hwaya Kim, violin | John Meisner, violin | Catherine Lynn, viola | Brad Ritchie, cello
Atlanta Chamber Players, First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Hour 2
George Gershwin arr. Brad Dechter: Someone To Watch Over Me
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin | London Symphony Orchestra | Keith Lockhart, conductor
Album: Serenade: The Love Album
E One 7792
Florence Price: The Deserted Garden
Leland Ko, cello | Adria Ye, piano
Young Artist in Residence Series, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Recording Studio, St. Paul, MN
Florence Price: Elfentanz
Leland Ko, cello | Adria Ye, piano
Young Artist in Residence Series, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Recording Studio, St. Paul, MN
Antonin Dvorak: Peace
Leland Ko, cello | Adria Ye, piano
Young Artist in Residence Series, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Recording Studio, St. Paul, MN
Leonard Bernstein, arr. J.A.C. Redford: Somewhere, from West Side Story
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin | London Symphony Orchestra | Keith Lockhart, conductor
Album: Serenade: The Love Album
E One 7792
Sulkhan Tsintsadze: Five Folk Pieces for Cello and Piano: Nos. 1 & 2
Leland Ko, cello | Adria Ye, piano
Young Artist in Residence Series, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Recording Studio, St. Paul, MN
Fazil Say: Bodrum from Four Cities
Leland Ko, cello | Adria Ye, piano
Young Artist in Residence Series, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Recording Studio, St. Paul, MN
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