What’s this program about?
Professor Carol interviews two friends and collaborators, composer John Corigliano and Maestro Jerry Junkin. Circus Maximus, Coriglian’s explosive third symphony, vividly portrays ancient Rome’s fascination with perpetual entertainment and our own culture’s similar obsession.
Works Discussed: Corigliano, Circus Maximus
Where you can find:
John Corigliano’s Altered States
John Corigliano’s Red Violin
John Corigliano’s Concerto for Clarinet
What’s this program about?
In post-revolutionary France, the piano had replaced the harpsichord and the driving force behind the arts was moving from the court to the salons of Paris high society. Two composers, Liszt and Chopin, capitalized on these changes in very different ways and between them defined the future of piano music.
Where you can find:
Twelfth International Cliburn Piano Competition
Parisian Worlds - Chopin
What’s this program about?
Percy Grainger’s life story reveals a most unusual personality who left an enduring legacy as a virtuoso pianist, an inventor of instruments, a collector of English folk songs, and a composer of music for wind band.
Works Discussed: Grainger, Lincolnshire Posy, The Immovable Do, Molly on the Shore.
Where you can find:
Percy Grainger’s Great Symphonic Band Music
Frederick Fennell - Eastman Wind Ensemble
Percy Grainger Biography - John Bird
What’s this program about?
Professor Carol explains various uses of dance forms: the light-hearted dances used by Rossini to strike a contrast with the serious dramatic action of William Tell, the tango combined by John Mackey with machine music, and the Renaissance dance forms comprising Susato’s Danserye.
Works Discussed: Rossini, William Tell; Mackey, Redline Tango; Honegger, Pacific 231; Susato, The Danserye.
Where you can find:
The Best of Rossini
Redline Tango
Pacific 231
Susato Danserye
What’s this program about?
A ballad tells a story, and this popular literary form was appropriated by Romantic composers into songs. Carol explains how the ballad was transformed by Chopin into solo piano works.
Works Discussed: Chopin, Ballade No. 4 in F Minor; Chopin, Impromptu No. 2; Schiller, Der Taucher (The Diver).
Where you can find:
Chopin Nocturnes and Ballades
Chopin Impromptus
What’s this program about?
Carol discusses Jeffrey Kahane’s performance with the Fort Worth Symphony, performance practices of piano concertos in Mozart’s time, cadenzas, and how stylistic conventions of the Classical era affected the ability of one person to take the dual role of soloist and conductor.
Works Discussed: Mozart, Overture to The Magic Flute; Mozart, Piano Concert No. 24 in C Minor (K. 491)
Where you can find:
Mozart - Piano Concertos #22 & 24
The Mozart Album - Canadian Brass
