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May 7 - May 14 - May 21 - May 28 Juilliard String Quartet
Listen This week on Saint Paul Sunday, host Bill McGlaughlin welcomes the internationally revered Juilliard String Quartet. Formed in 1946 as a resident teaching and performing ensemble, the Juilliard has since established and maintained a reputation as one of the world's great chamber ensembles. Known for its uncompromising musical artistry, its interpretive insight, and a thrilling performance intensity, the quartet has performed throughout the world in recitals, at music festivals, and with major symphony orchestras as concerto quartet-soloist. With recordings of virtually the entire core of the string-quartet literature to its credit, the Juilliard's discography is the most extensive in history. Mendelssohn: Quartet in D major, Op. 44, No.1 - I. Molto Allegro vivace Musician discography - Musician Web site - St. Paul Sunday Sessions Slideshow The Clerks' Group
Listen This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes the Clerks' Group, a remarkable London-based ensemble devoted to singing the little-known but often resplendent vocal music of the 14th and 15th centuries. The group's unusually individuated sound emerges from a rare performance style: rather than singing from separate and standardized scores, the ensemble clusters around a single large manuscript that delineates each of the voice parts without, however, representing any immediately apparent relation among them. The results are wonderfully authentic and unique, and have earned the Clerks' a number of honors, including Gramophone magazine's Early Music Award. On Saint Paul Sunday this week, the ensemble will sing works of Des Prez, Mouton, and the composer who towered over the 15th-century musical world, Johannes Ockeghem. Johannes Ockeghem: Intemerata Dei mater Musician discography - More about this week's program
Listen For a taste of the congeniality, brilliance, and sheer joy of chamber music, listen in this week as guest host Jorja Fleezanis welcomes OPUS ONE, an ensemble of four soloists whose collaboration always yields astonishing performances. Violinist Ida Kavafian, violist Steven Tenenbom, cellist Peter Wiley, and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott will play the breathtaking "Gypsy Rondo" presto from Haydn's Trio G major (H. XV:25), the enchanting opening movement of Antonín Dvorák's Piano Quartet in E flat major (Op. 87), and living composer Stephen Hartke's sensually profound 1988 work The King of the Sun, including the imaginatively titled movements "Personages in the night guided by the phosphorescent tracks of snails" and "The flames of the sun make the desert flower hysterical." Franz Joseph Haydn: Trio G major, H. XV:25-IV. Finale "Gypsy Rondo" Read more about Stephen Hartke Mendelssohn String Quartet; Robert Mann, viola
Listen When seasoned mastery and youthful brilliance join forces for great music, there's always magic in the air. That will certainly be true this week on Saint Paul Sunday when Robert Mann - founding first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet, a post he held for 51 years - picks up the viola to perform with the Mendelssohn String Quartet. Together they'll play Felix Mendelssohn's exhilarating second viola quintet. Mann's collaboration with the ensemble bears a personal, as well as musical, stamp - his son, violinist Nicholas Mann, is one of the Mendelssohn's own founding members. Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in D major, Op. 20, No. 4 Musician discography - More about this week's program Audio from previous shows is archived in the program catalog. Go to the catalog to listen to previous shows. |
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