Concert curator Geoff Nuttall loves cellos. Can't get enough of them. But he says that getting four cellists onstage at the same time is like trying to get four unicorns together. On today's show, a rare sighting: four all-star cellists at the Spoleto Festival USA perform "When the Night" by Paul Wiancko.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Alexander Scriabin: Etude in G sharp minor, Op. 8 No. 9 Alla ballata
Yuja Wang, piano
Yuja Wang: Fantasia
DG 16606
Leo Smit: Sextet for Winds and Piano
Carol Wincenc, flute; Nicholas Stovall, oboe; Amitai Vardi, clarinet; Drew Pattison, bassoon; Eli Pandolfi, horn; Bernadene Blaha, piano
Round Top Festival Institute, Festival Concert Hall, Round Top, TX
Alexander Scriabin: Sonata No. 5, Op.53
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
Southeastern Piano Festival, University of South Carolina School of Music Recital Hall, Columbia, SC
William Grant Still: Panamanian Dances
Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Isaiah Jackson, conductor
William Grant Still: La Guiablesse, Danzas de Panama, Quit Dat Fool'nish, Summerland
Koch 7154
Hour 2
Elliot Carter: Elegy for cello and piano
Joshua Roman, cello; Gilles Vonsattel, piano
The Freda & Aaron Silberman Recital Series, Baruch Performing Arts Center at Baruch College, New York, NY
Benjamin Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
Erin Roy, Narrator; Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra; Donald Runnicles, conductor
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Jackson Hole, WY
Paul Wiancko: When the Night, for Cello Quartet
Joshua Roman, Paul Wiancko, Christopher Costanza, Nina Lee, cellos
Chamber Music from Spoleto Festival USA 2019, South Carolina Public Radio, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
Franz Liszt: Dante Sonata
William Wolfram, piano
Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
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