Imagine that you're falling in slow motion, always moving down, but never coming to rest. That feather-floating feeling is behind two related pieces by David Lang. On today's show, feed your curious spirit, let your imagination run free with a musical discovery: "Gravity" and "After Gravity" by David Lang.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Frank Bridge: The Dew Fairy and Heart's Ease
Stephen Hough, piano
Steven Hough's English Piano Album
Hyperion 67267
Kareem Roustom: Ramal
Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio in E-flat Major for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, K. 498, Kegelstatt
Tomasso Lonquich, clarinet; Yura Lee, viola; Gilles Vonsattel, piano
The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Athens, GA
Franz Liszt: Funerailles from Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, LW A158
Stephen Hough, piano
Aspen Music Festival and School, Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, CO
Hour 2
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Concerto No. 11: Mvt 3
Shai Wosner, piano; Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Haydn & Ligeti Concertos & Capriccios
Onyx 4174
Erno Dohnanyi: Symphony No. 2: Movement 4
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein, conductor
Bard College, Sosnoff Concert Hall at Bard's Fisher Center, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Edvard Grieg: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27: Movement 1
Tessa Lark and Jun Iwasaki, violins; Jonathan Vinocour, viola; Julie Albers, cello
Seattle Chamber Music Society, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA
David Lang: Gravity
Shai Wosner, piano; Orion Weiss, piano
Chamber Music Northwest, Congregation Beth Israel, Portland, OR
David Lang: After Gravity
Shai Wosner, piano; Orion Weiss, piano
Chamber Music Northwest, Congregation Beth Israel, Portland, OR
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