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The Year of the Snake

Performance Today - January 29, 2025

It’s the Year of the Snake! For more than two billion people across many Asian cultures and the Asian diaspora, it's the beginning of a new year, the Lunar New Year. Join us today for celebratory music from Sichuan province, with a violinist born in the Year of the Snake.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Francis Poulenc: Sonata For Clarinet and Piano, Fp. 184: II. Romanza
Pamela Coats, clarinet & Carmen Stefanescu, piano
Album: Paris Mon Amour
RECORDJET

Grazyna Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra
Musicians of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Maxim Rysanov, conductor
EBU, Baltic Sea Festival, Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden

Piano Puzzler
Contestant: Diane Lusk calling from Southport, NC

Francis Poulenc: Sextet for Piano and Winds, Op. 100
Brook Ferguson, flute | Henry Ward, oboe | Gabriel Campos Zamora, clarinet | Aaron Apaza, bassoon | Dominic Rotella, horn | Adam Golka, piano
Lakes Area Music Festival, Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts, Brainerd, MN

Hour 2

Ye Xiaogang: Cantonese Suite, Op. 51, Mvt. 1: Raindrops Tapping on Banana Leaves
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz | Franck Ollu, conductor
Album: Xiaogang Ye: The Road to the Republic; Cantonese Suite
Naxos 8579089

Ye Xiaogang: Sichuan Image (excerpts)
Sichuan Philharmonic Orchestra | Bian Zushan, conductor
EBU, Chengdu City Concert Hall, Chengdu, China

Chan Ka Nin: Soulmate
Nikki Chooi, violin
Hayden's Ferry Chamber Music Series, Tempe Center For The Arts, Tempe, AZ

Wang Jie: The Night When You See Again
Apollo Chamber Players
Apollo Chamber Players, Bates Recital Hall, Rice University, Houston, TX

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