Guaguanco is a style of Cuban rumba that is often centered around the human voice and percussion. Recently, Cuban composer Guido Gavilan wrote a guaguanco...for string quartet. Can that work? We think it works beautifully. On today's show, hear the Harlem Quartet play the Cuarteto en Guaguanco by Guido Gavilan, from a concert in Colorado Springs.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Darius Milhaud: Selections from Scaramouche and Saudades Do Brasil
Branford Marsalis, alto saxophone; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Branford Marsalis: Creation
Sony 89251
Alexander Scriabin, arr. Willard Elliot: Seven Preludes for Clarinet and Piano Op. 16
Anthony McGill, clarinet; Gloria Chien, piano
String Theory at the Hunter, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Ferrer Ferran: Euterpe, Concertino for Flute and Wind Band
Otavio Bloes, flute; State Symphonic Band of Sao Paulo; Shawn Smith, conductor
Instituto Pensarte, Sala Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887, Op. 161: Movements 1 & 4
Escher String Quartet
Rockport Music, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
Hour 2
Sergei Rachmaninoff, arr. Lucien Cailliet: Prelude in G minor, Op 23, No. 5
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra; Sergiu Comissiona, conductor
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
CBC 5143
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Preludes (3 selections)
Joyce Yang, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA
Guido Gavilan: Cuarteto en Guaguanco
Harlem Quartet
UCCS Presents/Classical 88.7 KCME/Adventure Culture Fund, Ent Center for the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
Jean-Frey Rebel: Les Elemens (The Elements)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Thomas Zehetmair, conductor
SPCO, Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
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