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JULY 5, 2009 PROGRAM

Helen Callus, viola; Phillip Bush, piano


Affettuoso: Acclaimed British violist Helen Callus not only plumbs the potential of an instrument beloved for its eloquence: she also seeks out new ways to expand its reach. This week she joins pianist Phillip Bush for music that explores the viola to the fullest. Along with music of Brahms and Prokofiev, she brings us music of two little-known composers with whom she shares a great deal. Both female at a time when British composers were almost exclusively men, Rebecca Clarke and Pamela Harrison each carved out wonderful new terrain for the viola. Ms. Callus takes us through it with the passion of a fellow-traveler.

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JUNE 28, 2009 PROGRAM

A Dale Warland Singers Retrospective


In March of 1981 Saint Paul Sunday aired its first broadcast, an all-Bach program featuring the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Dale Warland Singers. Over the next two and a half decades these celebrated singers brought twelve programs to Saint Paul Sunday, each one demonstrating the beauty of tone and scrupulous craft that are their signature. This week, Dale Warland and Bill McGlaughlin sit down in the studio to survey all of them. The results are often breathtaking---a concentrated experience of the Dale Warland Singers' evolution and enthusiasms, from their devotion to new work and commissioning to their inimitable musicianship and sound. Listen in for a nostalgic journey through this glorious body of work. (more)

JUNE 21, 2009 PROGRAM

St. Lawrence String Quartet performs Haydn, Berger

As listeners who've heard the Saint Lawrence String Quartet's earlier Saint Paul Sunday programs can attest, its four members enter into each work they play with utter passion and humanity—as though it were the only music on earth. Appropriately enough, this week they perform two movements of Maurice Ravel's sole foray into the form alongside music by the composer most often credited with inventing it: the "Joke" quartet of Franz Joseph Haydn. We'll also hear powerful music by a composer who has collaborated directly with the ensemble: Jonathan Berger's "Doubles" and his "Eli Eli," a deeply affecting tribute to slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. (more)

 

ABOUT SAINT PAUL SUNDAY

A Look Back: 25 years of Saint Paul Sunday

(Photo above: London, England: Bill gets ready to record in front of the famous chapel in Cambridge, England.)
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Each week since 1981, Saint Paul Sunday has affirmed the abiding relevance and hospitality of great classical music-making. Whether longtime fans or recent converts, listeners encounter the same spirit that launched the series very first program: intimate, one-of-a-kind performances and approachable conversation with exceptional artists about the music at hand. (more)

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Anniversary Artist
The career of Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has attracted considerable interest and excitement since his international debut in the early 1990s. Described by the New York Times as "the most accomplished pianist of the new generation," the multiple Gramophone Award-winner is now firmly established as one of the most compelling artists on the world concert stage. (more)

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June 28, 2009 PROGRAM

A Dale Warland Singers

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Saint Paul Sunday Sessions

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A classic compilation with music by Schubert, Haydn, and a romantic duet by Rachmaninov. Artists featured include: the Juilliard String Quartet, violinist Gil Shaham, bassist Edgar Meyer, and violist Kim Kashkashian.