This weekend, we'll feature a two-part special event: music and conversation with composer Philip Glass. Glass joined PT host Fred Child for a live event in New York City. He talked about composers who've inspired him, his own experience of writing music, even his early days as a New York cabbie. The Glass Chamber Players, Trio Solisti, and violinist Maria Bachmann perform music by Glass and Maurice Ravel.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Philip Glass: Two movements from String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima)
The Smith Quartet
Nadia Boulanger: Piece No. 1, from Three pieces for Cello and Piano
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello, Jose Gallardo, piano
Lucerne Summer Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
Perfchat with Philip Glass, Part I: Perfchat
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude No. 1 in C from the Well-Tempered Clavier
Jon Klibinoff, piano
Rockefeller University, New York City
Franz Schubert: First movement from Violin Sonata in A, D. 574
Maria Bachmann, violin, Jon Klibinoff, piano
Rockefeller University, New York City
Philip Glass: Sonata for Violin and Piano
Maria Bachmann, violin, Jon Klibinoff, piano
Rockefeller University, New York City
Hour 2
Philip Glass: The Secret Agent
La Pieta
Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger: Passacalles
Rolf Lislevand, chitarrone
Ursuline Church, Varazdin, Croatia
Perfchat with Philip Glass, Part II: Perfchat
Maurice Ravel: Third movement from Piano Trio
Trio Solisti
Rockefeller University, New York City
Philip Glass: String Sextet
The Glass Chamber Players
Rockefeller University, New York City
William Walton: Touch Her Soft Lips and Part, from Henry V Suite
The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, conductor
Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne, Australia
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