A Conversation With Richard Tognetti

By Walter Parker | April 23, 2012

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The Australian Chamber Orchestra comes to the Hopkins Center in Hanover this Wednesday with guest soprano Dawn Upshaw.

VPR’s Walter Parker speaks with the ACO’s dynamic director, Richard Tognetti, and we’ll sample their recent recording of Grieg’s music.

Playlist:

9:01 am

Divertimento #1 (for Strings) in D , K 136
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ensemble: Concerto Koln
Conductor: Anton Steck
CD/Album: Mozart - Concerto Koln
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 4775800

9:20 am

Quintet for Piano and Winds
Composer: Louis Spohr
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble
CD/Album: Spohr: Septet Op. 14, Quintet Op. 52
Record co./Cat #: CRD 3399

9:55 am

Schonfeld March
Composer: Carl Michael Ziehrer
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
CD/Album: Vienna Soiree
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 463185

10:01 am

Concerto Grosso #4 in a , Op. 6
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Ensemble: Handel & Haydn Society
Conductor: Christopher Hogwood
CD/Album: Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 6
Record co./Cat #: L'Oiseau-Lyre 436845

10:12 am

Piano Concerto #1 in d , Op. 15
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Soloists: Nelson Freire, piano
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
CD/Album: Brahms: The Piano Concertos
Record co./Cat #: London 6588

11:01 am

Holberg Suite: Prelude , Op. 40
Composer: Edvard Grieg
Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Tognetti
CD/Album: Grieg: Music for String Orchestra
Record co./Cat #: BIS 1877

11:04 am

Richard Tognetti interview

11:07 am

Two Elegiac Melodies: Varen , Op. 34/2 ("Last Spring")
Composer: Edvard Grieg
Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Tognetti
CD/Album: Grieg: Music for String Orchestra
Record co./Cat #: BIS 1877

11:11 am

Richard Tognetti interview

11:15 am

Erotikk , Op. 43, no. 5
Composer: Edvard Grieg
Arranger: arr. Richard Tognetti
Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra
Soloists: Richard Tognetti, violin
Conductor: Richard Tognetti
CD/Album: Grieg: Music for String Orchestra
Record co./Cat #: BIS 1877
Note: from Lyric Pieces, Book III

11:18 am

Richard Tognetti interview

11:21 am

String Quartet #1: Intermezzo in g , Op. 27
Composer: Edvard Grieg
Arranger: arr. Richard Tognetti
Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Tognetti
CD/Album: Grieg: Music for String Orchestra
Record co./Cat #: BIS 1877

11:28 am

Folk Songs: Black is the Color
Composer: Luciano Berio
Soloists: Dawn Upshaw, soprano ; Ljova, viola ; Bridget Kibbey, harp
CD/Album: Golijov: Ayre - Berio: Folk Songs
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 4782

11:30 am

Folk Songs: Malurous qu'o uno fenno ("Wretched is he who has a wife")
Composer: Luciano Berio
Soloists: Dawn Upshaw, soprano ; Tara O'Connor, flute ; Bridget Kibbey, harp
CD/Album: Golijov: Ayre - Berio: Folk Songs
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 4782

11:31 am

Folk Songs: Azerbaijan love song
Composer: Luciano Berio
Soloists: Dawn Upshaw, soprano ; Tara O'Connor, flute ; Todd Palmer, clarinet ; Ljova viola ; Erik Friedlander, cello ; Bridget Kibbey, harp
CD/Album: Golijov: Ayre - Berio: Folk Songs
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 4782

11:36 am

Suite on Russian Folktunes , Op. 79b
Composer: Max Bruch
Ensemble: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra of Kaiserslautern
Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert
CD/Album: Max Bruch: Swedish and Russian Dances
Record co./Cat #: CPO 777385

11:56 am

Tourbillon Galopp
Composer: Joseph Lanner
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
CD/Album: Vienna Soiree
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 463185

12:01 pm

Brandenburg Concerto #1 in F , BMV 1046
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Ensemble: Orchestra Mozart
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
CD/Album: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 4778908

12:20 pm

Violin Sonata in F
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Soloists: Shlomo Mintz, violin ; Paul Ostrovsky, piano
CD/Album: Mendelssohn: Violinsonaten
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 419244

12:48 pm

Serious Variations , Op. 54
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Soloists: Alfred Brendel
CD/Album: Mozart - Liszt - Brahms - Mendelssohn
Record co./Cat #: Philips 426272

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