When Stephen Hough wrote his Piano Sonata No. 4, he called it "Vida Breve" (Short Life), expressing the melancholy of this brief lifetime we have. On today's show, Stephen Hough plays "Short Life", from a concert at the Grand Teton Music Festival.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 15, Op. 55, No.1: Andante
Philip Hii, guitar
Chopin: Nocturnes
GSP 1024
Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor, L.140
Randall Goosby, violin; Zhu Wang, piano
Honest Brook Music Festival, Honest Brook Farm, Delhi, NY
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne In C Sharp Minor Op. 27 No. 1
Xiaohui Yang, piano
Lake George Music Festival, Tannery Pond Community Center, North Creek, NY
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Pekka Kuusisto, conductor
SPCO, Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, MN
Hour 2
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 63 in B flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4 Movement 3 Menuetto
Escher String Quartet
The Unfolding of Music II
Music@Menlo 20082
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: Movements 2 & 3
Gerard Aimontche, piano; Colour Of Music Festival Orchestra; Marlon Daniel, conductor
Colour of Music Festival, Martha and John M. Rivers Performance Hall, Gaillard Center, Historic Charleston, SC
Anton Webern: Langsamer Satz for String Quartet
Escher String Quartet
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY
Stephen Hough: Sonata No. 4 "Vida Breve" (2019)
Stephen Hough, piano
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Jackson Hole, WY
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