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Nathalie Stutzmann
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Nathalie Stutzmann and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach began his role as the music director at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, a position for which he was only the third choice. To impress his uncertain employers, Bach composed ambitious new cantatas every week during his first few years, including the one we will hear today: the Sinfonia from J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 42, from a concert featuring conductor Nathalie Stutzmann and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Franz Schubert: German Dance, D 783, No. 10; Landler D 790, No. 3; Moment Musical D 780, No. 3
Gil Shaham, violin | Goran Sollscher, guitar
Album: Schubert for Two
DG 471 568

Michael Dudley: Prayer for Our Times
Sphinx Virtuosi
Lillian & Robert Utsey Chamber Music Series, Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

Paulo Bellinati: Um Amor de Valsa
Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo | Bellinati, guitar | Joao Luiz, guitar
New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes and Americas Society, Simon Bolivar Hall at Americas Society, New York, NY

Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: Mvts 1, 3
Gil Shaham, violin | NDR Radio Philharmonic | Stanislav Kochanovsky, conductor
EBU, Grand Studio NDR, Hanover, Germany

Hour 2

William Grant Still: Suite for Violin and Piano: African Dancer
Randall Goosby, violin | Zhu Wang, piano
Album: Roots
Decca Records 4851664

William Grant Still: Lyric Quartet: Mvts 1-2
Harlem Quartet
Maverick Concerts, Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock, NY

Louise Farrenc: Sextet in C minor for Winds and Piano, Op. 40
Julia Bogorad-Kogan, flute | Cassie Pilgrim, oboe | Sangyoon Kim, clarinet | Andrew Brady, bassoon | James Ferree, horn | Timothy Lovelace, piano
SPCO, Saint Paul's United Church of Christ, Saint Paul, MN

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 42
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor
University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA

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