Hosted by Larry West
Franz Schubert, Fantasie in C for violin and piano, Op. posth. 159, D. 934 (1827)
András Schiff, piano; Yuuko Shiokawa, violin
ECM New Series 2000
Richard Wagner, Prelude to Act I, Tristan und Isolde (1859)
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Pierre Boulez
Deutsche Grammophon 2012
Eugène Ysaÿe, Violin Sonata in g, Op. 27, No. 1 (1923)
Thomas Zehetmair, violin
ECM New Series 2004
John Williams (b. 1937), Sound the Bells! and Elegy for Cello and Orchestra
The Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles, John Williams; Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Sony 2012
Robert Dowland, from A Musicall Banquet (1610):
Passava Amor su arco desrmado (anonymous); Lady, if you so spite me (John Dowland); Dovrò dunque morire? (Giulio Caccini); Amarilli mia bella (Giulio Caccini); and Lady Rich, her Galliard (John Dowland)
Monika Mauch, soprano; Nigel North, lute
ECM New Series 2008
Ludwig van Beethoven, 6 Bagatelles, Op. 126 (1824)
Michael Korstick, piano
Oehms Classic 2012
Tigrin Mansurian, Three Portraits of Women from Ars Poetica (2000)
Armenian Chamber Choir, Robert Mlkeyan
ECM New Series 2006
Listen to a 2006 review of this next CD on NPR with David Was
Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G (1931)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Decca 1997
John Williams, Suite Far and Away (from the 1992 movie of the same name) and The Chairman's Waltz (2005, from Memoirs of a Geisha)
La Pietà; Angèle Dubeau, violin
Analekta 2012
Arthur Honegger, Sonatine VI for violin and cello (1932)
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin; Heinrich Schiff, cello
ECM New Series 2006
Valentin Silvestrov, Postludium No. 3 (1982)
Anja Lechner, cello; Silke Avenhaus, piano
ECM New Series 2002
Joachim Van den Hove (1567?-1620), Praeludium
Anthony Bailes, lute
Carpe Diem 2012
Next week: Extraordinary music from extraordinary people: Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and other highly accomplished composers who endured debilitating mental and emotional challenges.
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