Recently, Elizabeth Weinfield and her friends in the early music group Sonnambula stumbled across music by a long-forgotten composer. The works were written in the mid 1600s by a Flemish woman named Leonora Duarte. On this episode of Performance Today, hear Sonnambula perform 6 of Leonora Duarte's short Sinfonias.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Ethel Smyth: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in D Minor: III. Scherzo. Presto con brio
Chagall Trio: Lorenzo Nguyen, piano; Edoard Grieco, violin; Francesco Massimo, cello
The Impressions That Remain
Meridian NA
Antonin Dvorak: Serenade in E for String Orchestra, Opus 22
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
SPCO, Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
Ethel Smyth: Piano Piece in E Major
Liana Serbescu, piano
Smyth: Complete Piano Works
CPO 3272
Max Bruch: from Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83: Mvmts 1, 2, & 7
Prima Trio: Boris Allakhverdyan, clarinet; Gulia Gurevich, violin; Anastasia Dedik, piano
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, West Room, Palm Beach, FL
Hour 2
Johannes Brahms: Seven Fantasies Op. 116 No. 4 Intermezzo Adagio
Emanuel Ax, piano
Brahms Fantasies Op. 116 Piano Pieces Op. 119 Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 2
Sony 69284
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: Movement 3
Augustin Hadelich, violin; Oregon Symphony; Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Oregon Symphony, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR
Franz Liszt: Tre Sonetti di Petrarca
Emanuel Ax, piano
The Cliburn, Kimbell Art Museum Piano Pavilion, Fort Worth, TX
Leonora Duarte: Sinfonias (select: 1-4, 6, 7)
Sonnambula; Elizabeth Weinfield, artistic director
Leonora Duarte: The Complete Works
Centaur CEN 3685
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