After fighting in the Austrian army during the first World War, composer and violinist Fritz Kreisler moved to the US, where, initially, he didn't receive a warm welcome. Kreisler missed his home in Vienna, and he wrote that sense of longing into music. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear his String Quartet in A minor, from a live performance recorded at the Music@Menlo festival.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Leonard Bernstein: Divertimento for Orchestra: Movement 8 In Memoriam: March, 'The BSO Forever'
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop, conductor
Leonard Bernstein: Marin Alsop: The Complete Naxos Recordings
Naxos 8508018
Improvisation: Bulerias (Flamenco Improvisation)
Pepe Romero, guitar
92nd Street Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall, New York City, NY
Leonard Bernstein: On the Town: 3 Dance Episodes
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Bernstein conducts Bernstein
Sony 42263
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421
Ebene Quartet
Schwetzingen Festival, Mozart Hall, Schwetzingen, Germany
Hour 2
Fritz Kreisler: Caprice viennois
Joshua Bell, violin; Paul Coker, piano
The Kreisler Album
London 444 409
Thomas Arne: Overture (Symphony) No. 1 in E minor
Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare; Gwyn Roberts & Richard Stone, Directors; Emlyn Ngai, Concertmaster
Tempesta di Mare, Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA
Fritz Kreisler: Quartet in A minor
Benjamin Beilman, Danbi Um, violins; Paul Neubauer, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Gabriel Faure: Elegie, Op. 24
Tim Petrin, cello; George Fu, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN
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