DA CAMERA CONCERT PODCAST
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Da Camera of Houston chamber music concerts. Your host is
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Podcast No. 13 - The Spirit of England
This podcast features excerpts from the February 2010 concert The Spirit of England. Tenor Andrew Kennedy, violinists Kyung-Sun Lee and Laurie Smukler, violist Wayne Brooks and cellist Brinton Averil Smith perform Ralph Vaughan Williams song cycle On Wenlock Edge. The string players are joined by pianist Orion Weiss for Elgar's Quintet for Piano and Strings in A Minor, Opus 84.
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Podcast No. 12 - Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata; Seymour Lipkin, piano
This podcast features pianist Seymor Lipkin performing Beethoven's Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier." This performance was recorded during his January 26, 2010 all-Beethoven recital at The Menil Collection.
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Podcast No. 11 - Eliot Fisk, guitar; John Gibbons, harpsichord and the Enso Quartet.
This podcast features excerpts from two October 2009 Da Camera concerts:
a recital by guitarist Eliot Fisk and harpsichordist John Gibbons and Italian Romantics, featuring Fisk and the Enso String Quartet.
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Podcast No. 10 - Modern Virtuosos
This podcast features excerpts from the November 2009 concert Modern Virtuosos. Three virtuosos perform solo works by a major 20th century composer and two composers active today. Saxophonist Valerie Vidal plays Luciano Berio’s Sequenza 9b for alto saxophone. Violinist Jennifer Koh performs Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Lachen Verlernt. Pianist Marilyn Nonken plays the Fall, Winter and Summer movements from Liza Lim’s The Four Seasons (After Cy Twombly.) The performance was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Podcast No. 9 - Preludes and Fugues: Bach and Shostakovich
This podcast features the complete April, 2004 concert Preludes and Fugues: Bach and Shostakovich, with performers John Gibbons, harpshicord and Sarah Rothenberg, piano.
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Podcast No. 8 - Franz Liszt's Via Crucis
This podcast features Franz Liszt’s Via Crucis, 14 Stations of the Cross for chorus and piano. This rarely-performed work was part of the May, 2009 concert After Bach, a collaboration between Da Camera and Houston Chamber Choir. The performance was made possible by Finger Companies and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Podcast No. 7 - Richard Lavenda's Thoughts Fly
This podcast features Richard Lavenda's string quintet Thoughts Fly, fromt the April 2009 concert featuring the Chiara String Quartet. The Quartet is joined by cellist Norman Fischer, the father of Chiara violinist Rebecca Fischer. This performance was made possible in part by The Rockwell Fund and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.
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This podcast features excerpts from the February 2009 concert, Brentano String Quartet: Poetry and Music, Immigrants and Exiles. The performers are the Brentano String Quartet; baritone Leon Williams and pianists Sarah Rothenberg and Rodney Waters. This performance was made possible in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
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Podcast No. 5 - Zhou Long's The Farewell and Mahler's Der Abschied
This concert podcast features two works from Da Camera’s January 2009 concert, Songs of the Earth. The artists participating in these January 2009 performances were soprano Susanne Mentzer, Min Xiao-Fen, pipa; Wang Guowei, erhu and a Da Camera Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gregory Vajda. Click on read the program notes below for a complete list of the artists and texts and translations.
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Podcast No. 4 - Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time
This podcast features Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, performed by the outstanding ensemble of David Shifrin, clarinet; Vera Beths, violin, Desmond Hoebig, cello and Sarah Rothenberg, piano. This May 2008 performance was made possible in part by a generous gift from Sterling Bank.
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Podcast No. 3 - Mozart’s Horn Quintet in E Flat Major
This podcast features Mozart’s Horn Quintet in E Flat Major, K. 407, performed by William VerMeulen, horn; Curtis Macomber, violin; Toby Appel and Wayne Brooks, violas and Norman Fischer, cello. The performance was part of 2006’s MozartNOW Festival, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the great composer’s birth. This performance was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
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Podcast No. 2 - Brahms’s Quintet for Piano and Strings
This podcast features Brahms’s Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor, Opus 34, performed by pianist and Da Camera Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg and the Brentano String Quartet. The concert took place in October, 2006 and was made possible in part by support from Continental Airlines, the official airline of Da Camera of Houston.
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Podcast No. 1 - Mozart’s Quintet for clarinet and strings
This podcast features Mozart’s Quintet for clarinet and strings in A Major, K. 581, performed by the outstanding ensemble of David Shifrin, clarinet; Vera Beths, violin; John Marcus, violin; James Dunham, viola and Desmond Hoebig, cello. (To purchase a recording of this work featuring David Shifrin, click here or here.) The performance was part of the concertAfter Einstein: Music and the Relativity of Time, which concluded Da Camera 2007/2008 season. This performance was made possible in part by a generous gift from Sterling Bank.
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