Conventional wisdom says that only those who start intense musical training at a very young age will succeed. But Andrew Staupe got a relatively late start on the piano. He didn't start working on it seriously until he was a teen-ager. Staupe knew he had to make up for lost time. He says, "I really super-charged myself. And I thought, I have to learn fast and learn a lot." We'll meet this fine young American pianist today in the PT studios. Music and conversation with Andrew Staupe.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Edvard Grieg: Lyric Piece No. 1, Op. 71 (Once Upon a Time)
Andrei Gavrilov, piano
Isaac Albeniz: Asturias, from Suite Espanola, Op. 47
Pepe Romero, guitar
92nd Street Y, New York City
Orlando di Lasso: Veni in Hortum Meum
Stile Antico
Les Riches Heures de Valere Early Music Festival, Valere, Switzerland
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16
Steven Osborne, piano, the BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Robert Schumann: Widmung (Dedication)
Steven Osborne, piano
The BBC Proms, London, England
Hour 2
Gerald Finzi: Dance from Love's Labour's Lost
The English String Orchestra, William Boughton, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in C, RV 114
The Academy for Ancient Music, Berlin, Georg Kallweit, violin and leader
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Georg Philipp Telemann: Double Concerto in E Minor for Recorder and Flute, TWV 52:e1
Anna Fusek, recorder, Christoph Huntgeburth, flute, the Academy for Ancient Music, Berlin
Saint Lawrence Church, Lausanne, Switzerland
Perfchat: with Andrew Staupe: Perfchat
Felix Mendelssohn: Fantasy in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28 (Scottish)
Andrew Staupe, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Claude Debussy: La Terrasse des Audiences du Claire de Lune (the Terrace of Moonlit Audiences), from Preludes, Book 2
Andrew Staupe, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Christopher Walczak: Dark Blue
Andrew Staupe, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Gerald Finzi: A Severn Rhapsody, Op. 3
The Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra, Robert Manno, conductor
Windham Chamber Music Festival, Windham, New York
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