Benjamin Beilman plays a special violin, a Stradivarius, hand-crafted in 1709. He has the violin on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation, so eventually he'll have to give the violin back. On this weekend's show, Benjamin Beilman describes what it feels like to know that their time together is temporary; then hear him play a sonata by Eugene Ysaye, from a concert at the Music@Menlo Festival.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Sergei Prokofiev: Folk Dance from Romeo and Juliet
Paavo Jarvi, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Complete Suites from the Ballet Music
Telarc 80597
Eugene Ysaye: Sonata in E minor for Solo Violin, Op. 27, No. 4
Benjamin Beilman, violin
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Cayce Wilkinson from Council Bluffs, Iowa
George Gershwin: An American in Paris
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Louis Langree, conductor
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH
Hour 2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Oboe, Violin, Strings and Continuo in C: Movement I Allegro
Hilary Hahn, violin; Allan Vogel, oboe; Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Hilary Hahn - Bach: Violin Concertos / Kahane, La Co
DG 986
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 2
Jivan Ramesh, cello
Studio A, Marketplace Studios New York, NY
Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F Major, K 370-368b
Jonathan Fischer, oboe; Jonathan Crow, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; Bion Tsang, cello
Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Packard Hall, Colorado Springs, CO
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