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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. |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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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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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.)
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Da Camera Podcast: Preludes and Fugues: Bach and Shostakovich This podcast features an April 2004 concert by
the Sarah Rothenberg and John Gibbons at The Menil Collection. |
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Franz Liszt's Via Crucis, 14 Stations of the Cross for chorus and piano 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.
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Da Camera Podcast: Chiara String Quartet at The Menil Collection This podcast features an excerpt from the April 2009 concert by
the Chiara String Quartet at The Menil Collection. |
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Da Camera Podcast: Brentano String Quartet: Poetry and Music, Immigrants and Exiles 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.
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