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June 2004
June 6 - June 13 - June 20 - June 27

Milan Turkovic, bassoon;
David Shifrin, piano;
Shai Wosner, piano
June 6, 2004
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  Milan Turkovic, David Shifrin, and Shai Wosner
 
Milan Turkovic, David Shifrin, and Shai Wosner
Trio Bel Canto
Acclaimed bassoonist Milan Turkovic doesn’t think about the keys on his instrument when he performs; he listens instead for its natural voice. That way, he says, "it's like singing, because the human voice is the most natural instrument we have." This week Turkovic is joined by two celebrated friends who see eye to eye, clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Shai Wosner. In addition to a piece by Beethoven, the performers will play music that fits their lyrical approach beautifully—Mikhail Glinka's Trio Pathètique in d minor. Though Russian, Glinka’s enduring passion for Italian opera shines through each phrase. Listen this week for a program of exquisite instrumental bel canto.

Featured Links
document David Shifrin on Saint Paul Sunday with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (June 2003)
document Milan Turkovics on Saint Paul Sunday with Ensemble Wien-Berlin (May 2001)
document For more on Shai Wosner
document For more on David Shifrin
document For more on Milan Turkovics
document For more on the East-West Divan Workshop

Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 11
I. Allegro con brio
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto. Tema: Pria ch’io l’impegno
Mikhail Glinka: Trio Pathétique in d minor
Concertante
 June 13, 2004
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  Concertante
 

Concertante
Shapeshifters
The nine exceptionally gifted young artists of Concertante perform as various ensembles, from familiar combinations of five and six to the rarer mélange of the nonet. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Concertante visits the studio as a sextet to play two seldom-heard jewels of the chamber repertoire: Johannes Brahms's Opus 18 String Sextet, a serene and sunny work that nonetheless reflects hard-won transcendence of loss, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's suggestively beautiful Souvenir de Florence. In whatever form it happens to take, Concertante performs with great insight and dash.

I. Allegro ma non troppo
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Sextet in d minor, Op. 70 (“Souvenir de Florence")
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Adagio cantabile e con moto Moderato
Johannes Brahms: Sextet in B flat Major, Op. 18
III. Scherzo

The FOG Trio
 June 20, 2004
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  FOG Trio with Host Bill McGlaughlin
 
FOG Trio with Host Bill McGlaughlin

FOG and Friendship
To San Francisco’s endless charms, fog and friendship add a particular magic. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes three wonderful friends who first came together in San Francisco and whose initials call to mind the city’s gauzy bayside atmosphere. The FOG Trio—violinist Jorja Fleezanis, pianist Garrick Ohlsson, and cellist Michael Grebanier—will offer three great works of the trio repertroire: a dashing Haydn finale, two movements of Dvořák’s extraordinarily beautiful third piano trio in f minor, and the opening allegro of Schubert’s second piano trio, the composer’s favorite among his own trios.

Featured Links
document Previous SPS appearances by Garrick Ohlsson
document Previous SPS appearances by Jorja Fleezanis

Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, Opus 100 (posthumous)

I. Allegro
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 in f minor, Opus 65
III. Poco Adagio
IV. Finale
Franz Joseph Haydn: Trio in C major, Hob. XV: 27
III. Finale
For information about Jorja Fleezanis and Garrick Ohlsson recordings visit Public Radio Musicsource.

Avalon String Quartet
 June 27, 2004
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  Avalon String Quartet
 
Avalon String Quartet

Inspired Exchange
Owing to its intimacy and self-direction, chamber music at its best is always a give-and-take process. The Avalon String Quartet, Bill McGlaughlin’s guests this week on Saint Paul Sunday, lend 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. Having recently completed a two-year quartet residency at the Juilliard School, the quartet was immediately engaged to be artists-in-residence at Indiana University at South Bend where they serve as full-time string faculty. Its emerging presence on the American music scene signals the arrival of an exhilarating new voice.
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document Avalon Web site

 

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

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