Cellist Alban Gerhardt was having one of those days. Right before a live radio broadcast, he broke a string on his cello. He made a quick exit from the stage to get another string, only to find the door locked. Then he ran back across the stage to a different door. He later observed in his blog that his mad dashing about must have looked cartoonish, like the roadrunner. We'll hear Gerhardt on a calmer day, performing the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Johannes Brahms: Fourth movement from Sonata No. 2 in F for Cello and Piano, Op. 99
Cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Markus Groh
Maurice Ravel: Minuet Antique
Flutist Lorna McGhee, violist David Harding, and harpist Heidi Krutzen
Strings Music Festival, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Antonin Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104
Cellist Alban Gerhardt with the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor James Conlon
Verizon Hall, Philadelphia
Hour 2
William Byrd: Galliard
Pianist Glenn Gould
Orlando Gibbons: Allemande
Pianist Glenn Gould
York Bowen: Toccata, Op. 155
Pianist Ang Li
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas
William Byrd: "Ave Verum Corpus"
Chanticleer
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
Benjamin Britten: Fourth movement from String Quartet No. 1
The Belcea String Quartet
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Thomas Ades: "O Albion" from "Arcadiana"
The Belcea String Quartet
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
William Walton: Sonata for String Orchestra
The Scottish Ensemble with artistic director Jonathan Morton
Wigmore Hall, London, England
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