Today we’ll hear the great Alicia de Larrocha play rarely-heard works for piano and orchestra by Turina and Faure. And today’s Marlboro Music Festival feature brings us back to 2005 for a performance of Mendelssohn’s D Minor Piano Trio.
Today we’ll hear a recording from the 2009 Marlboro Music Festival – and a concert that I just happened to attend. It was a stormy Sunday afternoon, and the distant rumbles of thunder and the sound of raindrops on the roof created the perfect setting for a dynamite performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s "Transfigured Night."
Having trouble staying cool with the recent weather? Me too. So let’s just leave that to the musicians from the Marlboro Music Festival – they have no trouble keeping their cool under most any conditions. This morning’s Marlboro Month pick features the Mozart Flute Quartet in C with soloists including flutist Joshua Smith.
Marlboro Month continues today with a live performance from a July 25th, 2005 concert at the Festival featuring clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois and friends. The music? Sublime, of course: Camille Saint-Saens’ "Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs". Listen in the 9am hour for that – and thanks for your support of VPR Classical, now in our 7th year!
For today’s Marlboro Month Feature, we’ll hear Leos Janacek’s String Quartet "Intimate Letters," in a performance from 2002. Also today, Max Bruch’s first violin concerto, and chamber music featuring the harp by Jean Cras.