Saint Paul Sunday: 2002 ALL

The Paris Piano Trio
January 6, 2002
Élan Parisien
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This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes the Paris Piano Trio, three great French soloists who have been connected by their love of chamber music since they were prize-winning teen-agers at the Paris Conservatory. In the decades since, their radiant ensemble music-making and rapport have captivated audiences around the world. This week they'll bring us music of Haydn, Schubert, and a former director of their revered alma mater, Gabriel Fauré.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Trio in C major, Hob. XV: 27
-II. Andante
Franz Schubert: "Notturno"
Gabriel Fauré: Trio in d minor, Op. 120

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Michala Petri, recorder; Lars Hannibal, guitar
January 13, 2002
Continuing Dialogue
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"Conversation, companionship, and communication" are necessary for an engaging musical alliance, according to this week's guests on Saint Paul Sunday. Virtuoso recorder player Michala Petri is joined by her husband, guitarist Lars Hannibal, with a wonderful sampler of the old and the new that illustrates the point beautifully. The duo is known for its passion for playing, world-class musicianship and the artists' warm, inviting musical ensemble. We'll hear a sonata by Handel, a Spanish gypsy air originally written for violin, a Norwegian Fantasy by Lalo and "Twilight Dialogue," a work created for Michala Petri by Danish composer Per Nørgård. It's a winning combination that's not to be missed.

George Frederick Handel (arr. Hannibal): Sonata in Bb major
Jules Massenet (arr. Hannibal): Meditation (from Thais)
Pablo de Sarasate (arr. Hannibal): Zigeunerweisen ("Gypsy Airs"), Op. 20
Per Norgård: Twilight Dialogue
Edouard Lalo (arr. Hannibal): Fantasie Norwégienne

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Pamela Frank, violin; Claude Frank, piano
January 20, 2002
Exalted Music-Making
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Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms each come wholly alive under the touch of a father and daughter duo this week on Saint Paul Sunday. Legendary pianist Claude Frank joins the acclaimed violinist Pamela Frank for what Bill McGlaughlin rightly calls some "exalted music-making." We'll hear the haunting aria-like Largo from Bach's fourth violin sonata and two extraordinarily poignant late sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms. The Franks' incandescent performances reveal the lyrical power shared by all three composers, an ongoing tradition the duo celebrates and expands.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No. 4 in c minor, BWV 1017
    -I. Largo
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96
Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in d minor, Op. 108
    -II. Adagio

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Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; Troy Cook, baritone; Brian Zeger, piano
January 27, 2002
Marilyn Horne & Friends
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This week, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes one of America's most beloved musical artists and one of the greatest singers of our time. Marilyn Horne visits the Saint Paul Sunday studio with three noted associates of the Marilyn Horne Foundation, an institution dedicated to the presentation of promising young singers in song recitals. Soprano Dina Kuznetsova, baritone Troy Cook, and pianist and foundation board member Brian Zeger come together to perform a varied and beautiful program of classical song. Along the way, we'll hear more about the recital as a vocal art form and the unique riches it offers our cultural life.

Hugo Wolf: Der Jäger
Hugo Wolf: Das verlassene Mägdlein
Hugo Wolf: In dem Schatten
Enrique Granados: Mira que soy nina, from Canciones Amatorias
Enrique Granados: No lloreis, ojuelos, from Canciones Amatorias
Piotr Tchaikovsky: Ya li v'pole
Edward McDowell: Du liebst mich nicht!
Kurt Weill: Listen to my Song
Aaron Copland: Simple Gifts
Aaron Copland: At the River

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February 3 - February 10 - February 17 - February 24

The Guarneri String Quartet
February 3, 2002
Past, Present, and Future
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What can you say about the most enduring string quartet performing today? Since 1964, the Guarneri String Quartet has been a cornerstone in chamber music, beloved for its mastery of the finest literature for string quartet and for its contributions to the repertoire. On Saint Paul Sunday this week, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes this celebrated foursome for some glorious music-making and a look at the group's past, present and future. They'll play movements from Haydn and Mendelssohn quartets, plus the luminous Debussy String Quartet. Don't miss history in the making.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in B flat major, Op. 76, No. 4, "Sunrise"
    -I. Allegro con spirito
Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet in a minor, Op. 13, "Is it True?"
    -I. Adagio-Allegro vivace
Claude Achille Debussy: Quartet

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REBEL
February 10, 2002
Italian Inspiration
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The irresistible originality and charm of Italian music, whether openly embraced or officially banned, left an enduring impression on composers throughout 17th- and 18th-century Europe. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, the acclaimed ensemble REBEL joins Bill McGlaughlin to explore this remarkable influence as it was variously revealed by Vivaldi, Telemann, Purcell, and others. "Sophisticated and beguiling..." -The New York Times

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in a minor, R 108
Georg Phillipp Telemann: Sonata Discordato in A major
Henry Purcell: Sonata Sesta 'Chacony' in g minor, Z 807
Alessandro Scarlatti: Sonata Settima in D major
Francesco Mancini: Sonata Sesta in d minor

The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
February 17, 2002
Kindertotenlieder Without Words
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The tonality and heartfelt immediacy of Romantic music affords it a rich compass of moods and themes. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, the celebrated Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio brings to light three vivid facets of the Romantic soul: changeable Beethoven, lively Brahms, and a movement from contemporary American composer Richard Danielpour's "Reliquary for a Child," a deeply personal work composed to express grief and sympathy over the drowning death of a friend's 18-month old son.

"I know nothing more tragic or heartbreaking than the death of a child," writes Danielpour. "The work was intended as a kind of kindertotenlieder without words, and everything in the piece, including references to the Brahms 'Cradle Song,' relates to its initial inspiration."

Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio No. 4 in B flat, Op. 11
     -III. Theme and Variations
Richard Danielpour: Child's Reliquary
     -III. Adagietto
Johannes Brahms: Trio in B major, Op. 8
    -I. Allegro con brio

Listen to "Reliquary for a Child" in its entirety, a live performance offered by the trio last year as part of the Saint Paul Sunday Chamber Music Series.

The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

Richard Danielpour

Frederic Chiu, piano
February 24, 2002
Dancing Within Yourself
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This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes pianist Frederic Chiu, an artist whose originality, warmth, and musical insight have won him fans worldwide. Chiu enjoys a special affinity with each of the works he performs Sunday. With Liszt's transcription of Schubert's Schwanengesang he'll share his lifelong interest in transcriptions. And two composers Chiu has long admired - Sergei Prokofiev and his namesake Frédéric Chopin - also make lively appearances. For all the "verve and rhythmic vitality" of the Chopin mazurkas, Chiu says "they're very intimate - like dancing within yourself."

"Chiu has reinvented a form of virtuosity... a phenomenon that must be heard."
    -Le Monde de la Musique

Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 33
     No. 1 in g-sharp minor
     No. 2 in D Major
     No. 3 in C Major
     No. 4 in b minor
Sergei Prokofiev: Music for Children, Op. 65
Franz Schubert, transc. Franz Liszt: from Schwanengesang, D. 957
    Pigeon Post
    Serenade

March 3 - March 10 - March 17 - March 24 - March 31

The Avalon String Quartet
March 3, 2002
Inspired Exchange
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Owing to its intimacy and self-direction, chamber music at its best always engages a process of give and take. The Avalon String Quartet, Bill McGlaughlin's guests this week on Saint Paul Sunday, lend a dazzling musicianship to this chemistry, one that glows both within their close circle and through ongoing collaboration with several master ensembles of our day, including the Juilliard, Emerson, and Vermeer string quartets. Currently in residence at Juilliard, the Avalon's emerging presence on the American music scene signals the arrival of an exhilarating new voice.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in A Major, Op. 2, No. 1
Maurice Ravel: Quartet in F Major for strings

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Hespèrion XXI
March 10, 2002
Roots and Memory
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By brutal decree in 1492, the Jews of Spain were forced to abandon their ancestral faith or flee. Out of their far-reaching exile, the Sephardic world emerged, a nomadic culture loyal to its faith and Hispanic roots yet marked by vivid encounters with traditions from North Africa to the Balkans. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, gamba master Jordi Savall, soprano Monsterrat Figueras, and Hespèrion XXI perform the deeply affecting music of this legacy, one whose spirit of cultural openness still rings in the music, if not always the streets, of our own time.

Diaspora Sefardí: "Roots and Memory"
    Andalucia: Saeta antiqua
    Alba
    Si ay perdut mon saber (Ponç d'Ortafà)
    A la una yo nací
    Ritual
    Improvisation
    Axerico de quince años
    Improvisation
    La Guirnalda de Rosas

Paul Coletti, viola; Phillip Bush, piano
March 17, 2002
Uncovered Treasure
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"The 21st century is the century for the viola," says masterful Scottish violist Paul Coletti, who, along with pianist Phillip Bush, affirms the point brilliantly this week on Saint Paul Sunday. In addition to performing Franz Schubert's beloved "Arpeggione" sonata and a serene folk arrangement by Percy Grainger, Coletti introduces us to two works by another remarkable violist, Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), whose long-overdue recognition as a serious composer is transforming the repertoire.

Franz Schubert: Sonata in a minor for Arpeggione, D. 821
    -I. Allegro moderato
Rebecca Clarke: Morpheus
Rebecca Clarke: Sonata for Viola and Piano
Percy Grainger: The Sussex Mummers' Carol

Listen to Rebecca Clarke's Morpheus performed by violist Paul Coletti and pianist Phillip Bush.

Listen to Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano performed by Paul Coletti and Phillip Bush.

Paul Coletti's Discography - More about Rebecca Clarke

The Miami String Quartet with Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola
March 24, 2002
Fabulous Five
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How has the New World enlivened those traditional musical forms it inherited from the Old? This week, Bill McGlaughlin's acclaimed young guests, violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama and the Miami String Quartet, offer some delicious clues. The centerpiece of the program is Mozart's first viola quintet, written when the composer was just 17 but prophetic of the richness to come. Movements from two more works--Antonín Dvorák's Opus 97 viola quintet, written during the composer's three-year stay in the United States, and Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera's first quartet--observe a European musical language in distinctly North and South American styles.

Alberto Ginastera: Quartet No. 1, Op. 20
    -IV. Allegramente rustico
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in B flat major, KV 174
     -I. Allegro moderato
     -II. Adagio
Antonín Dvorák: Quintet in E flat major, Op. 97
     -III. Larghetto
     -IV. Finale; Allegro giusto

Nokuthula Ngwenyama Web Site

The Saint Olaf Choir
March 31, 2002
Choir Celestial
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For ninety years, the St. Olaf Choir has enthralled audiences around the world with extraordinary musicianship, a poetic acumen for phrasing and text, and its own rich and distinctive sound. Bill McGlaughlin welcomes the celebrated ensemble and its conductor, Anton Armstrong, into the Saint Paul Sunday studio this week for a special Easter program spanning five centuries. We'll hear music of Palestrina, Billings, Gretchaninoff, Copland, and two of the choir's former conductors: founder F. Melius Christiansen and noted living composer Kenneth Jennings.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus
William Billings: Easter Anthem
Alexander Gretchaninoff: Our Father
F. Melius Christiansen: Psalm 50 (mvmts. II, III)
György Orbán: Daemon Irrepit Callidus
Kenneth Jennings: The Lord is the Everlasting God (mvmt. II)
Aaron Copland: The Promise of Living (from The Tender Land)
arr. Dudley Cohen: Yom Seh Le-Yisrael
arr. Robert Scholz: Children of the Heavenly Father
arr. Moses Hogan: My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord
Keith Hampton: Praise His Holy Name!

All recordings are produced by St. Olaf Records - Read The Legacy of the Saint Olaf Choir
Read Text and Translations - Artist Web Site

April 7 - April 14 - April 21 - April 28

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: David Shifrin, clarinet; Fred Sherry, cello; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
April 7, 2002
Lease on Life
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Whether we're 6 or 60, we all need a fresh start from time to time...This week on Saint Paul Sunday, we hear a work that gave Johannes Brahms a new lease on life. After having vowed to retire, the 58-year old composer heard a performance by famed clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld. So moved was Brahms that he took up the pen again and wrote his sole clarinet trio for Mühlfeld. This week host Bill McGlaughlin welcomes an extraordinary trio from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to play it: clarinetist (and society president) David Shifrin, cellist Fred Sherry, and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. Sunday's program also includes a trio written with the three performers in mind: Pulitzer-prize winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis's "Trio in Red," which charts a distinctly different emotional territory.

Aaron Jay Kernis: Trio in Red
Johannes Brahms: Trio in a minor for clarinet, cello and piano, Op. 114

More info on today's performers - More info on Aaron Jay Kernis

	To find out how to get a copy of Converging Lines go to www.emersonquartet.com

The Emerson String Quartet
April 14, 2002

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For a quarter century, the Emerson String Quartet has led audiences into profound encounters with composers central to its repertoire. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, the renowned ensemble gives us peak examples of four--Haydn, Beethoven, Bartók, and Shostakovich--and flavors the mix with an American twist: music by Charles Ives and doublebass virtuoso Edgar Meyer, who joins the Emerson in a performance of his own "Quintet for String Quartet and Doublebass."

Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in D major, Op. 64, No. 5, Hob. III: 63, "The Lark"
    -I. Allegro moderato
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in e minor, Op. 59, No. 2
    -II. Molto adagio
Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 1, "From the Salvation Army"
    -I. Andante con moto
Edgar Meyer: Quintet for string quartet and doublebass
    -Movement II
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 4
    -IV. Allegretto pizzicato
Dmitri Shostakovich: Quartet No. 3 in F, Op. 73
    -III. Allegro non troppo

Read Beethoven: The Emerson Expedition - Read Shostakovich: Breaking Down Silence - Emerson String Quartet Bio

Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
April 21, 2002
Enchanted Forest
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Many of us know the recorder only as the small wooden handpipe we played as children. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet--an ensemble whose performances draw upon a forest of recorders of every size, sound, and
personality--expands our sense of the instrument's true possibilities. In addition to music of Bach, Vivaldi, and others, we'll hear an stunning new work by the young Italian composer Fulvio Caldini.

Anonymous: Caça 'O virgo splendens'
Giovanni Luigi da Palestrina: Ricercar del secondo tuono
Girolamo Frescobaldi: Capriccio V sopra La Bassa Fiamenga
Johann Pachelbel: Canon
Antonio Vivaldi (Johann Sebastian Bach): Concerto in d-minor Op.3 no 11, BWV 596
Fulvio Caldini: Fade Control
Johann Sebastian Bach: Preludium in c-minor BWV 537
Peter Goemans: Aan de Amsterdamse Grachten

The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet:
Karel van Steenhoven, Bertho Driever, Daniël Brüggen and Daniel Koschitzki
Photo Courtesy of The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

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Leila Josefowicz, violin; John Novacek, piano
April 28, 2002
Americana
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Music of popular and folk traditions has often inspired composers' most virtuosic works. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, the fiery young violinist Leila Josefowicz joins composer and pianist John Novacek for a dazzling American tour. We'll hear Henri Vieuxtemps' burlesque variation on "Yankee Doodle," a slow and sweet rendition of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile," and four of Novacek's own stunning ragtime inventions. Ms. Josefowicz offers us folk music of Spain, too: Manuel de Falla's noble "Suite Populaire Espagnole."

Manuel de Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole
John Novacek: Four Rags
    Intoxication
    4th Street Drag
    Cockles
    Full Stride Ahead
Henri Vieuxtemps: Souvenir d'Amerique "Yankee Doodle," Variations burlesques
Charles Chaplin (arr. Claus Ogermann): Smile

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May 5 - May 12 - May 19 - May 26

The Sixteen
May 5, 2002
Heaven and Earth
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Out of the pestilence and cultural upheaval of 16th-century Europe emerged choral music of otherworldly power and calm. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes the celebrated British ensemble the Sixteen and its conductor Harry Christophers for polyphonic Renaissance works by Palestrina, Victoria, and Byrd. The program juxtaposes three sensuous "Song of Songs" settings with ethereal liturgical works: music the Sixteen sings with all its famed purity and warmth.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Tota pulchra est
William Byrd (from Mass for Four Voices): Kyrie-Gloria
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Vadam et circuibo
William Byrd (from Mass for Four Voices): Sanctus-Benedictus
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut lilium inter spinas
William Byrd (from Mass for Four Voices): Agnus Dei
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Ave Maria

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	Photo Credit: Kent Lacin

Jon Kimura Parker, piano
May 12, 2002
Generous Spirit
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Great classical music weaves its spell on multiple layers at once, and only occasionally does an artist come along who animates both its particulars and its larger expanses with equal aplomb. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, host Bill McGlaughlin welcomes renowned Canadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker for Beethoven's joyous Sonata in C major (Op. 2, No. 3), Maurice Ravel's quietly revolutionary "Jeux d'Eau," and a stunning new fantasy on Harold Arlen's music for the "Wizard of Oz" composed for Mr. Parker himself. ".Gargantuan technique, awesome timing, oceanic depth, volcanic fire and more fun than the whole Marx Brother's catalogue." (San Antonio Express-News)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in C major, Op. 2, No. 3
Maurice Ravel: Jeux d'Eau
Harold Arlen (arr. William Hirtz): Fantasy on "The Wizard of Oz"

	Mandonlinist Mike Marshall (left) with doublebassist Edgar Meyer in the Saint Paul Sunday studio.

Mike Marshall, mandolin and guitar; Edgar Meyer, doublebass
May 19, 2002
Back Porch Harmony
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Sometimes all we really need is to sit on the back porch and listen to friends play music. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, we get that chance when two of America's musical treasures, doublebass virtuoso Edgar Meyer and mandolinist and guitiarist Mike Marshall, bring us several of their own arrangments and compositions: a vivid quiltwork of classical and other styles. Pull up a chair.

All works arranged by Mike Marshall and Edgar Meyer.

Trad.: Golden Eagle Hornpipe
Edgar Meyer: Pickles
Edgar Meyer: Duet (untitled)
Trad.: Green slime
Trad.: Fla-flu
Trad.: "Whiskey Before Breakfast" Medley
Mike Marshall and Edgar Meyer: Duet (untitled)
Trad.: Novo Cetvorno
Johann Sebastian Bach: D# minor prelude from The Well-Tempered Clavier
Edgar Meyer: Duet (untitled)
Jacob Do Bandolim: Flight of the Fly
Edgar Meyer: Blooper
Edgar Meyer: Irish Jigs

	Prague Wind Quintet

Prague Wind Quintet
May 26, 2002
Golden Prague
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For centuries, Prague has been close to the heart of European music-making, a home to great composers and performers alike. Bill McGlaughlin's guests this week on Saint Paul Sunday, the Prague Wind Quintet, bring the golden city to us with works by three diverse composers who radiate a distinctly Czech charm and character. Music of Beethoven rounds out a program as magical as Prague itself.

Isa Krejci: Quintet-movements I, II, III
Antonin Reicha: Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 88, No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven/arr. Thomas Widlar:Quartet in c minor, Op. 18, No. 4-I. Allegro ma non tanto
Oldrich Flosman: Wind Quintet No. 2

	Brentano String Quartet

Brentano String Quartet
June 2, 2002
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Greatest Form

It's been said that the string quartet is the form into which the greatest composers poured their greatest music. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, the extraordinary Brentano String Quartet prove the point with three distinct takes on their chosen ensemble. We'll hear music from the "father of the string quartet," Franz Joseph Haydn, three intriguing short pieces by Igor Stravinsky and Béla Bartók's remarkably expressive first quartet. Listen in to discover the evolution of, and the riches within, Haydn's enduring brainchild.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in A major, Op. 20, No. 6
     -I. Allegro di molto e scherzando
Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet
Béla Bartók: Quartet No. 1

	Pieter Wispelwey Dejan Lazic

Pieter Wispelwey, cello; Dejan Lazic, piano
June 9, 2002
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Cello Kaleidoscope

A human voice, a beam of light, a fiery village dance? To whatever impressions the cello stirs in you, cellist Pieter Wispelwey and pianist Dejan Lazic will add their own brilliant luster. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, the acclaimed duo brings to life three distinct faces of the instrument: music from the late eighteenth, middle nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Along with sonatas of Beethoven and Zoltán Kodály, we’ll hear Chopin’s little known Grande Polonaise Brillante for Cello and Piano in C Major.

Zoltán Kodály: Sonata for Cello, Op. 8 (1915)
    -I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionata
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Cello and Piano in g minor, Op. 5 No. 2
    -I. Adagio sostenuto e espressivo
    -II. Allegro molto piu tosto presto
    -III. Rondo (Allegro)
Frédéric Chopin: Introduction and Grande Polonaise Brilliante for Cello and Piano in C Major, Op. 3

For information about Pieter Wispelwey and Dejan Lazic´ recordings visit Public Radio MusicSource.

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Ahn Trio
June 16, 2002

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Ahn-Plugged

From Haydn to Jim Morrison, the three Ahn sisters perform all music with equal flair and enthusiasm. As these world-class artists point out, why shouldn’t classical music be fun? It’s all about the music when the Ahn Trio stops by the Saint Paul Sunday studio this week with the last trio of a master, two pieces by living composers and a special arrangement of a different kind of “classic"— “Riders on the Storm."

Haydn: Trio No. 45 in Eb major, Hob. XV:29
John Musto: Piano Trio (1998)
    -II. Slowly, Allegro molto
Kenji Bunch: Slow Dance
Jim Morrison: Riders On The Storm

	Jorja Fleezanis and Cyril Huvé

Jorja Fleezanis, violin; Cyril Huvé, fortepiano
June 23, 2002
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Harmony of the Spheres

The musical sound-world in which Ludwig van Beethoven lived and composed might surprise us today with its intimacy and transparency. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, two extraordinary artists, violinist Jorja Fleezanis and fortepianist Cyril Huvé, bring that world alive for us on instruments Beethoven would have known in his own day, restoring a long-lost and often breathtaking clarity to three of his sonatas.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in a minor, Op. 23
    -I. Presto
    -II. Andante scherzoso, piu Allegretto
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 7 in c minor, Op. 30, No. 2     -I. Allegro con brio
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96

	Petersen String Quartet

Petersen String Quartet
June 30, 2002

An Elegant Version

As we know it today, the string quartet is a form that contains multitudes. But in the hands of the composer most often credited as its inventor, Franz Joseph Haydn, the string quartet’s earliest versions had chiefly an elegant, even playful air. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, a brilliant young ensemble from former East Berlin will contrast one of Haydn’s graceful early quartets with a work drawn from a composer whose quartet cycle now stands at the pinnacle of the Western classical canon: Ludwig van Beethoven. The Petersen String Quartet will perform Haydn’s Opus 1 Quartet in G major, No. 4 and then take on Beethoven’s "Serioso" quartet, a work of profound humanity.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in G major, Op. 1, No. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in f minor, Op. 95, "Serioso"

The King' Singers
July 7, 2002
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We'll hear vocal music in all its delicious intricacy and color this week when the King's Singers drop in for a return visit to Saint Paul Sunday. The beloved English sextet will perform three sacred works by English Renaissance master William Byrd, two Italian madrigals, a haunting tribute to the now virtually extinct San People of South Africa, and several charming arrangements. Whether performing Monteverdi or Neil Young, the King's Singers evoke a stunning sound-world. Their artistry and sense of fun have won them fans worldwide.

William Byrd: Haec Dies
William Byrd: O Lord, Make thy Servant Elizabeth Our Queen
William Byrd: Laudibus in Sanctis
Carlo Gesualdo: Luci Serene e Chiare
Claudio Monteverdi: Si Ch'io Vorrei Morire
Peter Louis van Dijk: Horizons
Neil Young, arr. Knight: After the Goldrush
Trad., arr. Paul Hart: Humpty Dumpty-Old King Cole-The Grand Old Duke of York
Trad. Irish, arr. Gordon Langford: Phil the Fluter's Ball

King's Singers Web site

The Eroica Trio
July 14, 2002
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Café Music

Listen in for music-making of thrilling vitality and passion this week as Bill McGlaughlin welcomes the Eroica Trio into the Saint Paul Sunday studio. Violinist Adela Peña, cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio, and pianist Erika Nickrenz will perform their own arrangement of Rachmaninov’s beloved "Vocalise," Paul Schoenfield’s charming "Café Music" (a work composed especially for them), and three fiery Piazzolla tangos. The trio takes its name from Beethoven’s majestic third symphony and lives up to its inspiration. In the words of the New York Times "There is an edge-of-the-seat intensity to every note they produce."

Jean Baptiste Loeillet: Sonata in b minor
Paul Schoenfield: Café Music
Sergei Rachmaninoff, arr. Eroica Trio: Vocalise
Astor Piazzolla: Otono Porteño
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion
Astor Piazzolla: Primavera Porteño

Emmanuel Pahud, flute; Eric Le Sage, piano
July 21, 2002
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Flûte Fantastique

Flute superstar Emmanuel Pahud and pianist Eric Le Sage visit Saint Paul Sunday this week for a program of solo and duet works by French composers: Claud-Achille Debussy’s Syrinx and L'Isle Joyeuse, as well as sonatas by César Franck and Francis Poulenc. Though just 31, Pahud has already served for eight years as principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic and performed as a soloist around the world, winning distinction for his astonishing technique, artistry, and flair. The Swiss-born Pahud is devoted to stretching the flute’s unique possibilities, and his Saint Paul Sunday program features the instrument in all its kaleidoscopic moods and textures.

Claude-Achille Debussy: Syrinx for solo flute
Claude-Achille Debussy: L'Isle Joyeuse
Francis Poulenc: Sonata-II. Cantilena
César Franck: Sonata in A major

More about the artists - Musician Web site

The Hugo Wolf Quartet
July 28, 2002

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Few cities’ musical lights are quite as revered as those of Vienna, a place whose musical spirit and pedigree exerts a strong pull on musicians to this day. On Saint Paul Sunday this week, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes a vibrant young ensemble that calls Vienna home. The acclaimed Hugo Wolf Quartet will bring us music of Beethoven, Brahms, and Berg, each of whom had his own distinctive encounter with the city. Listen in to discover how Vienna’s musical soul animates the Hugo Wolf Quartet’s own artistry. “One can hear in these players the qualities that make the Vienna Philharmonic special," wrote the New York Times.

Alban Berg: Lyric Suite for String Quartet
   -I. Allegretto gioviale
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet in c minor, Op. 51, No. 1
   -III. Allegretto molto moderato e comodo, un poco più animato
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in a minor, Op. 132
   -III. Canzona di ringraziamento (Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart): Molto adagio
   -IV. Alla Marcia, assai vivace
   -V. Allegro appassionato

The Hugo Wolf Quartet Web site

August 4 - August 11 - August 18 - August 25

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
August 4, 2002
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At first blush, Leif Ove Andsnes’s press kit lends the impression that he’s an Olympic skier: one critic lauds his "steely nerves," while another places him "at the top of the tree, even in his hazardous profession." Then, too, Andsnes is from Norway, where skiing is second only to walking. But this week on Saint Paul Sunday we’ll discover that the heights Andsnes masters with such breathtaking artistry aren't snow-capped —they're pinnacles of the piano repertoire. A regular soloist with the world's major orchestras and recipient of the Irving S. Gilmore Keyboard “genius grant," Andsnes will play a Brahms intermezzo, Debussy's Estampes ("Engravings"), and an excerpt from Liszt's “Years of Pilgrimage" cycle.

Claude-Achille Debussy: Estampes
Franz Liszt: Deuxième année: Italie
Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo in B flat major, Op. 117, No. 2

Leif Ove Andsnes Web site

Romanesca
August 11, 2002
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"Music that likes to live dangerously." That's how one critic characterized the performances of Romanesca, an ensemble of violin, theorbo, and harpshichord which visits the studio this week. The fiery threesome -- Andrew Manze, Nigel North, and John Toll -- refuse to think of early music concertizing as a cautious, archival endeavor. Following the traditions of the 17th and 18th century performance, they improvise freely along their individual musical lines while phrasing and breathing as an ensemble. Listen in for music of Vivaldi, Pandolfi, and Biber, composers whose Baroque character Romanesca spices with continual harmonic surprises.

Biagio Marini: Romanesca
Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi: Sonata "La Cesta," Op. 3, No. 2
Antonio Vivaldi: "Manchester" Sonata No. 4 in D major, RV 755
Heinrich Biber: Sonata III

	Christian Tetzlaff
	Tanja Tetzlaff

Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Tanja Tetzlaff, cello
August 18, 2002
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Listen in for music making of the highest order this week on Saint Paul Sunday when host Bill McGlaughlin welcomes the brother-sister duo violinist Christian Tetzlaff and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff. First we'll hear Christian perform J. S. Bach's Sonata No. 1 in g minor, a work of great beauty and virtuosity. Next up is Zoltán Kodály's passionate Duo for violin and cello. Kodály conceived this remarkable work out of the rich traditions of Hungarian folk music he'd spent a lifetime exploring and recrafting. Don't miss these unforgettable performances.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No. 1 in g minor, BWV 1001
Zoltán Kodály: Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7

	The Bergen Woodwind Quintet

Bergen Woodwind Quintet
August 25, 2002
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Northerly Wind

The Norwegian city Bergen is celebrated for its graceful seaside charm and its ancient cultural traditions. Its crooked cobblestone streets have long been haunted by artists and writers, and the Bergen Philharmonic is one of the oldest orchestras in the world. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, host Bill McGlaughlin welcomes a celebrated ensemble consisting of the principal winds of the Bergen Philharmonic. The Bergen Woodwind Quintet will perform music of 19th-century Italy and 20th-century Hungary and America: a vibrant program worthy of their lovely municipal namesake.

Giuseppe Maria Cambini: Quintet No. 2
David Maslanka: Quintet No. 2
Endre Szervánszky: Bläserquintett-Fuvósötös
    -I. Adagio-Allegro

	David Finckel and  Wu Han  Artist Web site

David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano
September 1, 2002
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata for cello and piano, Op.19
   -III. Andante
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 119
   -I. Andante grave
Sergey Rachmaninoff: Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 19
   -I. Lento
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 119
   -II. Moderato
Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for cello and piano, Op.40
   -II. Allegro
   -III. Largo
   -IV. Allegro

About the Sonatas
by David Finckel and Wu Han
When listening to Russian music you get the feeling that the composer is telling you a story, not just to convey information but to unburden themselves, and to describe and chronicle the human condition as it existed at the time. . .

	eighth blackbird

eighth blackbird
September 8, 2002
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When American poet Wallace Stevens wrote his Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, little could he have known that some 70 years later the enigmatic and beautiful lines of the poem's eighth stanza would be adopted, in spirit and name, by six brilliant young musicians. Happily, eighth blackbird -- an Oberlin-trained sextet of violin, cello, flute, clarinet, piano, and manifold percussion -- did just that. This week Bill McGlaughlin welcomes eighth blackbird into the Saint Paul Sunday studio for a program of three works composed especially for them. Movements from Thomas Albert's kaleidoscopic setting of the poem "Thirteen Ways" conclude the program with poignant evocations of Stevens's imagery and thought.

David Schober: Variations
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon: Paramo
Thomas Albert: Thirteen Ways (selected movements)

	The Eroica Quartet

The Eroica Quartet
September 15, 2002
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This week on Saint Paul Sunday, meet the Eroica Quartet, an extraordinary ensemble of four of Britain’s leading period instrumentalists. The group has developed a unique style recalling the mid-nineteenth century. Founded on their belief in intense and careful study of the performance techniques of the Romantic period, the Eroica Quartet will play music by Schumann, Beethoven and Mendelssohn as the first audiences for these works might have heard them; a fascinating discussion further illuminates their chosen style.

Robert Schumann: Quartet in A major, Op. 41, No.3
    -II. Assai agitato
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in Eb major, Op. 74 "Harp"
   -II. Adagio
Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 4 in e minor, Op. 44, No. 2

	Paula Robison

The Robison-Lubambo-Baptista Trio
September 22, 2002
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An enchanting collaboration began when renowned flutist Paula Robison-“first lady of the flute"-joined forces with two friends from Brazil, guitarist Romero Lubambo and percussionist Cyro Baptista. The trio visits Saint Paul Sunday this week, conjuring up nights in Rio with Brazilian music from the choro tradition scored for flute, guitar, and a host of unusual percussion instruments. They also take us to Paris on the wings of their own version of Debussy’s “Clair de lune."

Jaco do Bandolim: Noites Cariocas ("Rio Nights")
Waldyr Azevedo: Ve se Gostas ("See if you like it")
Pixinguinha: Segura Ele ("Grab him!")
Edu Lobo: Na Ilha de Lia, no Barco de Rosa ("In Rosa's boat, I dream of Lia")
Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune ("Moonlight")
Cyro Baptista: O Berimbau
Romero Lubambo: P'ro Flavio
Two Birdsongs:
   Altamiro Carillho: Bem-te-vi-tristohno
   Lina Pesce: Bem-te-vi atrevido
Raoul de Barros & Ary dos Santos: Na Gloria ("A party at the Hotel Gloria")
Zequinho de Abreu: Tico Tico no Fubá

	Lang Lang

Lang Lang, piano
September 29, 2002

It’s often assumed that musical maturity comes with age; however, there are those who are meant to break such rules, to the delight of their audience. Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who has just turned nineteen, is this kind of artist, and he is Bill McGlaughlin’s guest this week on Saint Paul Sunday. Lang Lang has won international competitions and performed with leading orchestras from a very young age, and his youthful enthusiasm, great sensitivity and blazing fireworks have been earning him rave reviews around the world. A captivating musical storyteller, Lang Lang will bring us a delightful Haydn sonata, six pieces of Brahms’ Opus 118, and the spectacular “Islamey (Oriental Fantasy)" by Russian composer Mily Balakirev. Tune in for sounds that are guaranteed to thrill.

View photos from Lang Lang's visit to the studio.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Sonata in E major, Hoboken XVI:31
-I. Moderato
Johannes Brahms: Six Pieces, Op.118
   -I. Intermezzo in a minor
   -II. Intermezzo in A major
   -III. Ballade in g minor
   -IV. Intermezzo in f minor
   -V. Romanze in F major
    -IV. Intermezzo in e-flat minor
   -Mily Balakirev: Islamey ("Oriental Fantasy")

October 6 - October 13 - October 20 - October 27

	The Romeros

The Romeros: Celin Romero, Pepe Romero, Celino Romero, Lito Romero
October 6, 2002
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The legacy of the great Spanish guitarist Celedonio Romero (1913-1996) continues to flourish as "the Romeros," a guitar quartet composed of two of his sons and two grandsons. On Saint Paul Sunday this week, we get a spellbinding glimpse into the roots and latest developments of this extraordinary tradition. Join Bill McGlaughlin as he welcomes Pepe, Celin, Lito, and Celino Romero for music of Boccherini, Albeniz, Gimenez, and Celedonio himself. It's an hour of unforgettable music making.

Michael Praetorius: Bransle de la torche
Ballet
Volta
Isaac Albeniz (arr. Pepe Romero): Granada
Celedonio Romero: Zapateado
Luigi Boccherini (arr. Pepe Romero): Introduction and Fandango
Jeronimo Gimenez (arr. Pepe Romero: La Boda de Luis Alonso
Pepe Romero: Fiesta en Cadiz (Homage a Sabicas)
Celedonio Romero: Noche en Malaga

	Ilya Gringolts

Ilya Gringolts, violin; Christopher Guzman, piano
October 13, 2002
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Some of the classical music's greatest works were inspired by great performers. This week on Saint Paul Sunday we'll hear two virtuosic pieces--Bela Bartók’s free-ranging second violin sonata and Maurice Ravel's "Tzigane," a dizzying homage to gypsy music--that were composed for the same violinist, Jelly d'Aranyi. Each work gets a brilliant interpretation this week from a virtuoso of our own time, the young Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts, whose artistic maturity and commanding technique have won him worldwide raves. Of the Bartók sonata, Mr. Gringolts says, "It's music that knows no bounds."

Bela Bartok: Violin Sonata No. 2
Antonin Dvorak: Romantic Pieces (Miniatures), Op. 75
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane

Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort
October 20, 2002
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"Missa Mexicana"

The Hispanic Baroque knit together often-dizzying contrasts of its culture and faith into works of great beauty and vitality. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort give us a vivid musical taste of that world in "Missa Mexicana," a program that juxtaposes an exuberant 17th-century Mass setting by Spanish-born composer Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, chapel master of Mexico’s Puebla Cathedral, with the Latin-American and African folk dances that inspired it. It's a lively Baroque fusion of the Old World and the New.

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Francisco de Escaladas: Villancico Cantan dos jilguerillos
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (1590 - 1664): Kirie (from Missa Ego flos campi)
Santiago de Murcia (1682-1735?): Cumbées
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (1590 - 1664): Negrilla A siolo flasiquiyo
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla: Gloria (from Missa Ego flos campi)
Gaspar Fernández: Guineo: ¿Andres, do queda el Ganado?
Anonymous (17th century Peru): Marizápalos a lo humano: Marizápalos bajó una tarde
Juan García de Zéspedes (1619-1678): Guaracha Convidando está la noche

	Richard Bado and Renée Fleming with Host Bill McGlaughlin

Renée Fleming, soprano; Richard Bado, piano
October 27, 2002
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American soprano Renée Fleming suffuses all she sings with a beauty, intelligence, and supple authority that are hers alone. She is truly a singer for our time. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes Ms. Fleming and her long-time friend and collaborator Richard Bado into the studio for a program that draws freely from her eclectic musical palette. We’ll hear two songs of Richard Strauss; arias by Puccini, Catalani, Gounod, and André Previn; and several American works, including Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow" and a timely new song by Gene Scheer that poignantly evokes a memory of war.

Richard Strauss: Schlechtes Wetter
Cäcilie
Giacomo Puccini: O Mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi
Alfredo Catalani: Ebben? ne andrò lontana, from La Wally
Charles Gounod: Jewel Song, from Faust
André Previn: I Want Magic! from A Streetcar Named Desire
Richard Rodgers: Hello Young Lovers, from The King and I
Harold Arlen/arr. Larry Ham: Over the Rainbow Trad./arr. Dave Grusin/Lee Ritenour: Two Rivers (The Water is Wide and
Shenandoah)
Gene Scheer/arr. Lee Musiker: Holding Each Other

November 3 - November 10 - November 17 - November 24

Kronos Quartet
November 3, 2002

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Rahul Dev Burman (arr. Osvaldo Golijov): Aaj Ki Raat (Tonight is the Night)
Aleksandra Vrebalov: Pannonia Boundless
Enrique Rangel (arr. Osvaldo Golijov): La Muerte Chiquita (the Little Death)
Osvaldo Golijov: Doina
Rezso Seress: Gloomy Sunday
Terry Riley: Cortejo Funebre en el Monte Diablo from Requiem for Adam
Anibal Triolo (arr. Osvaldo Golijov): Responso (Responsory)
Carlos Paredes (arr. Osvaldo Golijov): Romance No. 1
Nicholas Roubanis (arr. Osvaldo Golijov): Misirlou Twist

	Lars Hannibal and Michala Petri

Michala Petri, recorder; Lars Hannibal, guitar
November 10, 2002
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“Conversation, companionship, and communication" are necessary for an engaging musical alliance, according to this week’s guests on Saint Paul Sunday. Virtuoso recorder player Michala Petri is joined by her husband, guitarist Lars Hannibal, with a wonderful sampler of the old and the new that illustrates the point beautifully. The duo is known for its passion for playing, world-class musicianship and the artists’ warm, inviting musical ensemble. We’ll hear a sonata by Handel, a Spanish gypsy air originally written for violin, a Norwegian Fantasy by Lalo and a “Twilight Dialogue," a work created for Michala Petri by Danish composer Per Nørgård. It’s a winning combination that’s not to be missed.

artist web site

Franz Joseph Handel (arr. Lars Hannibal): Sonata in Bb major
Jules Massenet (arr. Lars Hannibal): Meditation from Thaïs
Pablo de Sarasate (rev. Ossip Schnirlin; arr. Hannibal): Zigeunerweisen ("Gypsy Air")
Op. 20
Per Norgård: Twilight Dialogue
Eduoard Lalo (arr. Lars Hannibal): Fantasie Norwègienne

	Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson

The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
November 17, 2002
Kindertotenlieder Without Words
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The tonality and heartfelt immediacy of Romantic music affords it a rich compass of moods and themes. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, the celebrated Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio brings to light three vivid facets of the Romantic soul: changeable Beethoven, lively Brahms, and a movement from contemporary American composer Richard Danielpour's "Reliquary for a Child," a deeply personal work composed to express grief and sympathy over the drowning death of a friend's 18-month old son.

"I know nothing more tragic or heartbreaking than the death of a child," writes Danielpour. "The work was intended as a kind of kindertotenlieder without words, and everything in the piece, including references to the Brahms 'Cradle Song,' relates to its initial inspiration."

Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio No. 4 in B flat, Op. 11
     -III. Theme and Variations
Richard Danielpour: Child's Reliquary
     -III. Adagietto
Johannes Brahms: Trio in B major, Op. 8
    -I. Allegro con brio

Listen to "Reliquary for a Child" in its entirety, a live performance offered by the trio a few years ago as part of the Saint Paul Sunday Chamber Music Series.

The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

Richard Danielpour

The Guarneri String Quartet
November 24, 2002
Past, Present, and Future
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What can you say about the most enduring string quartet performing today? Since 1964, the Guarneri String Quartet has been a cornerstone in chamber music, beloved for its mastery of the finest literature for string quartet and for its contributions to the repertoire. On Saint Paul Sunday this week, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes this celebrated foursome for some glorious music-making and a look at the group's past, present and future. They'll play movements from Haydn and Mendelssohn quartets, plus the luminous Debussy String Quartet. Don't miss history in the making.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in B flat major, Op. 76, No. 4, "Sunrise"
    -I. Allegro con spirito
Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet in a minor, Op. 13, "Is it True?"
    -I. Adagio-Allegro vivace
Claude Achille Debussy: Quartet

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December 1 - December 08 - December 15 - December 22 - December 29

	Phantasm in the Water, by Coneyl Jay

Phantasm
December 1, 2002
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Fancies and Fantasies
In its heyday, the viol's wide familiarity and affecting voice-like timbres captivated generations of composers and performers. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Phantasm, an extraordinary viol quartet from England, draws from this tradition a program of airs, fancies, and fantasies - music as beguiling today as it was four centuries ago.

John Jenkins: Fantasy No. 2
John Jenkins: An Ayre
John Jenkins: An Almaine
John Jenkins: Fantasy No. 3
Orlando Gibbons: Pavan for Lord Salisbury
Orlando Gibbons: Peascod Time
Richard Mico: Fancy No. 14
Richard Mico: Fancy No. 18
Henry Purcell: Fantazia 4
Henry Purcell: Fantazia 12
Henry Purcell: Fantazia 5

	Gottlieb Wallisch

Gottlieb Wallisch, piano
December 08, 2002
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The remarkable young Viennese pianist Gottlieb Wallisch visits Saint Paul Sunday this week for a program that explores his instrument's subjective and coloristic possibilities to their fullest. First we'll hear a Mozart fantasy that ventures beyond its classical milieu into stormy Romantic territory; next an evocative sound-picture of moorish Spain by Debussy; and finally Robert Schumann's dazzling "Carnaval," a coded panoply of the composer's loves, theatrical passions, and alter egos. Mr. Wallisch inhabits each work with the virtuosity for which he is already warmly noted.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Phantasie in c minor, KV 475
Claude-Achille Debussy: "La soirée dans Grenade" (from Estampes)
Robert Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9

	Dorian Wind Quintet

The Dorian Wind Quintet
December 15, 2002
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TIME magazine called them “one of chamber music’s most sparkling and eloquent ensembles." Find out why on Saint Paul Sunday this week, when the Dorian Wind Quintet, now celebrating its 40th anniversary, joins Bill McGlaughlin in the studio. The quintet brings an anniversary gift with them: imaginative new variations on Anton Reicha’s E-flat Major Quintet by Richard Rodney Bennett, George Perle and Lee Hoiby. We’ll also hear the original Reicha Quintet, along with charming music of Darius Milhaud and Lalo Shifrin, all played with Dorian’s characteristic spirit and virtuosity.

Artists Web site

Darius Milhaud: La Cheminée du Roi René, Op. 205 (The Chimney of King René)
-I. Cortège
-II. Aubade (Morning Serenade)
-III. Jongleurs (Jugglers)
-IV. La Malousinglade
-VI. Chasse A Valabre (Hunting at Valabre)
Anton Reicha: Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 88, No. 2
-III. Poco Andante-Grazioso
-IV. Finale-Allegretto
Anniversary Variations on a Theme of Reicha
-Theme: Andante Grazioso from Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 88, No. 2
-I. Richard Rodney Bennett: Con Eleganza
-II.George Perle: Four Variations
-IV. Lee Hoiby: Finale: Andante/Lento/Allegro
Lalo Shifrin: "La Nouvelle Orleans"

The Lyra Concert; David Douglass, director; Ellen Hargis, soprano
December 22, 2001
Rejoice Greatly
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For music of tranquility and splendor, the Christmas season has it all. This week on Saint Paul Sunday Bill McGlaughlin welcomes the Lyra Concert and celebrated soprano Ellen Hargis under the direction of violinist David Douglass. Their musical offering includes works of Michael Praetorius, Johann Rosenmüller, and William Byrd, along with three beloved selections from Handel's "Messiah." It's music of comfort and joy.

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621): Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Michael Praetorius: In Dulci Jubilo
Johann Rosenmuller (1619-1684): Paduan
Johann Rosenmuller: Lieber Herre Gott, wecke uns auf
Anonymous: Sweet was the song the virgin sung
William Byrd (1543-1623): This day Christ ws born
Anonymous: Born is the Babe
George Fridric Handel (1685-1759): from Messiah
    Pifa
    He shall feed his flock
    Rejoice greatly

The Lyra Concert Baroque Orchestra Web Site

The Grieg Trio, with composer Libby Larsen
December 29, 2002
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Scandinavian Connection
Named for composer Edvard Grieg, the Grieg Trio has won praise throughout its native Scandinavia and worldwide for, as one critic put it, “its sensitivity, flexibility and above all, outstanding talent." The acclaimed Norwegian trio is back in St. Paul, and this time they’ve brought Haydn, Schubert and a new work written just for them: Libby Larsen’s Piano Trio No. 3. The members of the Grieg Trio are known for their strong connection to their Norwegian cultural heritage and a commitment to sharing their music with the world; so the artists’ collaboration with Larsen, an internationally known American composer of Norwegian ancestry, has proved a perfect fit. Larsen joins the Grieg Trio in the studio for a discussion of her new work.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Trio in C major, No. 43, Hob. XV: 27
-I. Allegro
Libby Larsen: Piano Trio No. 3
Franz Schubert: Trio in E flat major, Op. 100 (D.929)
-IV. Allegro moderato

Libby Larsen's web site