Sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque have been playing as a piano duo for more than 50 years, and their playing and approach is as fresh as ever. On today's show, hear the Labeque sisters perform a new concerto for two pianos by Bryce Dessner.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
George Gershwin (arr. Irwin Kostal): Two Waltzes
Katia & Marielle Labeque, pianos
Second Rhapsody: Music for two pianos by George Gershwin
EMI 49752
Guido Lopez-Gavilan: Cuarteto en Guaguanco
Harlem Quartet
Interlochen Presents, Dendrinos Chapel and Recital Hall, Interlochen, MI
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
Yura Lee, Ani Kavafian, Alexander Sitkovetsky, violins; Tara Helen O'Connor, Adam Walker, flutes; Daniel Phillips, viola; Inbal Segev, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY
Bryce Dessner: Concerto for Two Pianos
Katia Labeque, piano; Marielle Labeque, piano; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Louis Langree, conductor
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH
Hour 2
Antonin Dvorak: Humoresque, Op.101, No. 3
Orion Weiss, piano
Dvorak, Bartok, Prokofiev
Bridge 9355
Leonard Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's Symposium
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Nashville Symphony, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN
Antonin Dvorak: Cypresses
Miro Quartet
Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, The Breakers - Gold Room, Palm Beach, FL
Joseph Achron: Hebrew Dance, Op. 35, No. 1
Danbi Um, violin; Orion Weiss, piano
Music@Menlo, Stent Family Hall, Menlo School, Atherton, CA
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