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Les Noces October 20, 2010 This podcast features Igor Stravinsky's wildly inventive work, Les Noces. Ritualistic and insistently rhythmic, Les Noces depicts a Russian peasant wedding and is scored for four pianos, chorus and percussion. It was performed as part of Da Camera's Exiles in Paris festival in March 2008. The performers were Houston Chamber Choir and So Percussion; pianists Alan Feinberg, Timothy Hester, Pedja Muzijevic and Sarah Rothenberg; and percussionists Richard Brown, Craig Hauschildt and Matthew Strauss. Renowned Dutch conductor Reinbert de Leeuw made his Da Camera debut. A link to texts and translations can be found on the Da Camera and KUHF web sites. <br> > <a href="http://kuhf-classical.org/lesnocesprogramnotes.pdf"> more detailed information on this piece.</a><br> > <a href=http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-arts-podcast-dacamera.php>view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts</a> <br clear=all><br> > read more listen to episode: > in your media player download episode: > podcast > iTunes > direct subscribe to series: > latest podcast > iTunes |
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Ben Allison Band August 18, 2010 This podcast features excerpts from the February 2010 jazz concert by the Ben Allison Band: Ben Allison, bass; Shane Endsley, trumpet; Jenny Scheinman, violin; Steve Cardenas, guitar and Rudy Royston, drums. This set features songs from Ben Allison's CD Think Free, including Fred, Broke, Kramer vs. Kramer vs. Godzilla, Platypus and Green Al. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts > read more listen to episode: > in your media player download episode: > podcast > iTunes > direct subscribe to series: > latest podcast > iTunes |
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Spirit of England June 28, 2010 by: S.Smith 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. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts > read more listen to episode: > in your media player download episode: > podcast > iTunes > direct subscribe to series: > latest podcast > iTunes |
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Seymour Lipkin April 13, 2010 by: S.Smith This podcast features pianist Seymour Lipkin performing Beethoven’s Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat, Op. 106. Widely considered Beethoven’s single most difficult composition for the piano, the so-called “Hammerklavier” sonata remains one of the most challenging solo works in the entire piano repertoire. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts > read more listen to episode: > in your media player download episode: > podcast > iTunes > direct subscribe to series: > latest podcast > iTunes |
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Italian Romantics February 16, 2010 by: S.Smith 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. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts > read more listen to episode: > in your media player download episode: > podcast > iTunes > direct subscribe to series: > latest podcast > iTunes |
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Modern Virtuosos January 11, 2010 by: KUHF Staff This podcast features excerpts from Da Camera's 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.) > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts > read more listen to episode: > in your media player download episode: > podcast > iTunes > direct subscribe to series: > latest podcast > iTunes |
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Da Camera Podcast: Preludes and Fugues: Bach and Shostakovich December 7, 2008 by: KUHF Staff This podcast features an April 2004 concert by the Sarah Rothenberg and John Gibbons at The Menil Collection. Selected pieces from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 are preformed by pianist Sarah Rothenberg and harpsichordist John Gibbons. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts > read more listen to episode: > in your media player download episode: > podcast > iTunes > direct subscribe to series: > latest podcast > iTunes |
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Franz Liszt’s Via Crucis, 14 Stations of the Cross for chorus and piano October 19, 2009 by: KUHF Staff This Da Camera 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 of Houston and Houston Chamber Choir. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts > read more listen to episode: > in your media player download episode: > podcast > iTunes > direct subscribe to series: > latest podcast > iTunes |
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Da Camera Podcast: Chiara String Quartet at The Menil Collection September 8, 2009 by: KUHF Staff This podcast features an excerpt from the April 2009 concert by the Chiara String Quartet at The Menil Collection. Composer Richard Lavenda's quintet, Thoughts Fly, is performed by the Chiara String Quartet and cellist Norman Fischer. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts > read more listen to episode: > in your media player download episode: > podcast > iTunes > direct subscribe to series: > latest podcast > iTunes |
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Da Camera Podcast: Brentano String Quartet: Poetry and Music, Immigrants and Exiles July 15, 2009 by: KUHF staff 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. > more detailed information on this piece > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts > read more listen to episode: > in your media player download episode: > podcast > iTunes > direct subscribe to series: > latest podcast > iTunes |
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