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The Romeros: Celin Romero, Pepe Romero, Celino
Romero, Lito Romero 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
Ilya Gringolts, violin; Christopher Guzman, piano 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
Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort "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. Francisco de Escaladas: Villancico Cantan dos jilguerillos
Renée Fleming, soprano; Richard Bado, piano 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
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