Edward Elgar found it almost impossible to compose during the First World War. He said, "I cannot do any real work with this awful shadow hanging over us." But in 1918, he began writing a lament for a lost world. On today's show, hear Elgar's lament, his Cello Concerto in E Minor, from a concert in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Alexander Scriabin: Two Etudes: C-sharp minor, F-sharp minor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Alexander Scriabin - The Complete Etudes
Bridge 9287
Jeno Hubay: Scenes de la csarda No. 3 for Violin and Piano, Op. 18, Maros vize (The River Maros)
Danbi Um, violin; Orion Weiss, piano
Music@Menlo, Stent Family Hall, Menlo School, Atherton, CA
Jerome Kern, arr. Charles Miller: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Adela Pena, violin; Basia Danilow, violin; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Peter Sanders, cello
Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, VT
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major
Garrick Ohlsson, piano; Oregon Symphony; Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Oregon Symphony, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR
Hour 2
Franz Schubert: 11 Ecossaises D781
Imogen Cooper, piano
Imogen Cooper - Schubert Live - Volume 1
Avie 2156
Clara Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22
Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Anton Nel, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Anastasia Kobekina, cello; Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra; Nikolai Alexeev, conductor
The XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition, Grand Hall of the D.D. Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia, St. Petersburg, Russia
Julian Anderson: Sensation: Movement 1 "She Hears"
Imogen Cooper, piano
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
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