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French composer Ernest Chausson (ca. 1897)
Photo: Guy & Mockel, Paris, via Wikimedia Commons
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Chausson's wild 'Chamber Concerto'

In 1890, French composer Ernest Chausson wrote a wild piece that's difficult to put in one tidy box. It's part violin concerto, part piano concerto, and part sextet. It’s a great piece that isn’t played often enough. Tune in today to listen to a live performance of the Chamber Concerto by Ernest Chausson from the annual Verbier Festival in Verbier, Switzerland.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Sulkhan Tsintsadze, arr. Tamaz Batiashvili: Miniatures, Nos. 2-3
Lisa Batiashvili, violin | The Georgian Chamber Orchestra
Album: Lisa Batiashvili: Beethoven Violin Concerto and Tsintsadze Miniatures
Sony 33400

Ernest Chausson: Chamber Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet  in D Major, Op. 21 Movement 1: Decide
Lisa Batiashvili, violin | Lucas Debargue, piano | Ebene Quartet
Verbier Festival, Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland

Gabriela Lena Frank: Elegia Andina
The Orchestra Now | Naomi Woo, conductor
Bard College and The Orchestra Now, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY

Johann Sebastian Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 6 in F Major, BWV 1057
Simone Dinnerstein, piano | Windham Festival  Chamber Orchestra | Robert Manno, conductor
Catskill Mountain Foundation, Orpheum Theatre, Tannersville, NY

Hour 2

Igor Stravinsky: Divertimento from the Fairy's Kiss: Movement 2 Danses suisses
Benjamin Beilman, violin | Yekwon Sunwoo, piano
Album: Spectrum
Warner Classics 554471

Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Taipei Music Festival Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Taipei Music Academy & Festival, Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Valentin Silvestrov: Four Pieces, Op. 305 (World Premiere)
Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Tippet Rise Art Center, The Olivier Music Barn, Fishtail, MT

Jean Sibelius, arr. Jaakko Kuusisto: En saga, Op. 9
Anthony McGill, clarinet | Brad Balliett, bassoon | Jennifer Montone, horn | Blake Pouliot, violin | Benjamin Beilman, violin | Nathan Schram, viola | Efe Baltacigil, cello | Timothy Cobb, bass
La Jolla Music Society, The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, La Jolla, CA

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