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November 5, 2000 Sound-World Listen 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 arrangments. 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 Musician discography - Musician Web site
November 12, 2000 Dancing Within Yourself Listen This week on Saint Paul Sunday Bill McGlaughlin welcomes pianist Frederic Chiu, an artist whose originality, warmth, and musical insight have captivated fans around the world. Chiu enjoys a special affinity with each of the works he performs Sunday. He'll share his lifelong fondess for transcriptions with Liszt's transcription of Schubert's Schwanengesang. And two composers Chiu has long championed - Sergei Prokofiev and his namesake Frédéric Chopin - will also make lively appearances. For all the "verve and rhythmic vitality" of the Chopin mazurkas on his program, Chiu says "they're very intimate - like dancing within yourself." "Chiu has reinvented a form of virtuosity... a phenomenon that must be heard." Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 33 Musician Web site and Discography
November 19, 2000 Shining Young Stars Listen Bill McGlaughlin welcomes one of the world's preeminent young violinists into the studio this week. At just 20, Hilary Hahn has already won comparison with such violin legends as Heifetz and Gramiaux, and her performances have dazzled audiences worldwide. This week with pianist Natalie Zhu she performs sonatas by Debussy and Brahms, as well as J. S. Bach's breathtaking solo violin sonata in a minor. Along the way we'll get to know one of classical music's shining young stars. Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100 Hilary Hahn discography - Hilary Hahn's Web site - More about Hilary Hahn and this week's program
November 26, 2000 From My Life Listen Composers have often reserved chamber music as a sanctuary for their most complex and intimate expressions. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, the Miró String Quartet will take us through Bedrich Smetena's first quartet (more familiarly titled "From My Life"), a highly personal musical account of his own youth, love, misfortune, - and that which he once called "the inexpressible yearning for something I could neither express nor define." The Miró will also play the passionate opening movement of the first quartet by Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera, as well as the noble Allegretto and Largo movements from Franz Joseph Haydn's fifth "Erdödy" quartet. Formed at the Oberlin Conservatory in 1995, the Miró String Quartet has already won the praise of audiences and honors at a number of top chamber music competitions, including the Banff International, which awarded the ensemble first prize. Alberto Ginastera: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 26-I. Allegro rustico In the slow movement of his highly personal Quartet in e minor - more familiarly titled "From My Life" - Bedrich Smetena takes a musical idea through a series of transformations. Listen here as guest host Jorja Fleezanis and the Miró String Quartet demonstrate the powerful effect these often subtle changes create in the work's third movement, Largo sostenuto.
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