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The Concert - Podcast StreamDescription: Classical Music Podcasts from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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Point of Departure
Works for solo violin and string quartet performed by violinist Ray Chen and the Borromeo String Quartet.
- Bach: Chaconne from Partita in D minor
- Bartók: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor
Music is an art of variation. From the cantus firmus masses of medieval Europe to the 12-bar-blues of early 20th century America, the art of the varying and building upon a set theme has a long history. Bach's famous Chaconne is regarded as the apotheosis of the genre—a four-bar ground bass, repeated some 64 times with incredibly rich variation. In Bartok's second String Quartet, the mournful fi...
Music and the Great War
Works for solo piano and piano quintet performed by pianist Jean-Frederic Neuburger and Musicians from Marlboro.
- Ravel: La Valse
- Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
World War I truly changed the way people saw the world around them, and that shift was particularly evident in art and music. On this episode we'll hear French works from before and after the war. Franck was a full-fledged Romantic who never lived to see the war. His Piano Quintet exhibits the intense passion that characterized music of his era. Biographers have suggested that Franck was infatuated with one of his studen...
The Romantic-Tempered Clavier
Work for solo piano performed by pianist Cecile Licad.
- Chopin: Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 28
In the Romantic era, “preluding” was a common practice. Before or between set pieces on a program, the pianist would often improvise a brief prelude, to establish the mood and key. Chopin was an expert at that art, but his composed Preludes were quite different, and as such somewhat confounding to his contemporaries. The set of 24 short pieces—one in every key—wasn't intended as a compilation of introductory material, but rather a complete cycle unto itself. In that way, many have not...
From Romantic to Modern
Works for solo piano and for voice and string quartet, performed by pianist Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, soprano Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, and musicians from Ravinia's Steans Institute.
- Brahms: Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
- Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
With lush harmony and passionate, singing melody, the Brahms' Rhapsodies are textbook examples of the mature Romantic style. As the Romantic era progressed, composers began pushing the harmonic envelope further, and that late Romantic language is typified and further extended by Schoenberg's Quartet No. 2. The first and second moveme...
Baroque Treats
Works for flute, violin, and continuo, performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
-Telemann: Gulliver Suite in D Major for 2 violins
-Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue in D Major for 3 violins and continuo
-Vivaldi: Sonata in D minor for 2 violins and continuo, RV 63,“La Follia”
-Bach: Trio Sonata in C minor for flute, violin, and continuo from The Musical Offering
Today's podcast offers up a menu of Baroque treats. Telemann's suite, a five-movement work inspired by Jonathon Swift's immensely popular novel Gulliver's Travels, offers playful depictions of some of the stor...