Violinist Midori joined host Fred Child in our PT studios recently for an hour of music and conversation. She talked about the singular power of music by Bach ("so spiritual, so cleansing, so difficult") and about the many ways in which she is reaching out to young musicians and young listeners. Plus, Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, from a concert by the New York Philharmonic.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Pablo de Sarasate: Habanera, Op. 21, No. 2
Midori, violin, Robert McDonald, piano
Perfchat with Midori: Perfchat
Johann Sebastian Bach: First movement from Solo Violin Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1001
Midori, violin
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Johannes Brahms: First movement from Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Op. 78
Midori, violin, Robert McDonald, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Max Bruch: Finale from Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 26
Midori, violin, the Berlin Philharmonic, Mariss Jansons, conductor
Paul Hindemith: Violin Sonata in E-flat, Op. 11, No. 1
Midori, violin, Robert McDonald, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Fritz Kreisler: Syncopation
Midori, violin, Robert McDonald, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Hour 2
Johannes Brahms: Excerpts from Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118
Lang Lang, piano
Johann Strauss, Jr.: Thunder and Lightning Polka
The Vienna Philharmonic, Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)
Lang Lang, piano
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Robert Schumann: Traumerei (Dreaming), from Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15
Lang Lang, piano
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
The New York Philharmonic, David Robertson, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
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