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French Music at Marlboro Festival WWFM

On this week’s “Music from Marlboro,” it’s an all-French affair.

Charles Gounod’s classically proportioned and wholly delightful “Petite symphonie” will be performed by Marlboro wind players, including “the Heifetz of the flute” (Gramophone) Marina Piccinini, principal oboist of the Metropolitan Opera Nathan Hughes, principal oboist of the Minnesota Orchestra Joseph Peters, principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic Anthony McGill, New York-based freelance clarinetist Alicia Lee (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, The Knights, NOVUS and ACME), principal bassoonist of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra Brad Balliett, San Francisco Symphony bassoonist Steven Dibner, newly appointed principal hornist of the Berlin Philharmonic David Cooper, and former principal horn of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (and now concert soloist) Radovan Vlatković, from a concert given in 2013.

Then veteran pianist Gilbert Kalish will be joined by violinist Catherine Cho (Juilliard School faculty), violist Melissa Reardon (Enso String Quartet), and cellist Raman Ramakrishnan (Horszowski Trio, formerly of the Daedalus Quartet) to perform Gabriel Fauré’s passionate and personal Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45, from a concert given in 2001.

I hope you’ll join me for more great music-making from the archives of the legendary Marlboro Music Festival, this Wednesday at 6 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

August 16, 2017
Marlboro Music Festival Archive Performances

With this year’s Marlboro Music Festival poised to enter its final weekend, we’ll continue our exploration of the Marlboro Music archive, with performances of Gioachino Rossini’s String Sonata No. 3 (a 1989 recording featuring violinists Lara St. John and Ivan Chan, cellist Paul Tortelier, and double bassist Timothy Cobb), Max Reger’s Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue (a 1977 recording with pianists Yefim Bronfman and Luis Btlle), and Richard Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll” (a 1971 performance led by Alexander Schneider).

This year’s Marlboro Music Festival runs through August 13. Learn more about this weekend’s events at marlboromusic.org. Then join me for great chamber music and chamber orchestra performances on “Music from Marlboro,” this Wednesday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

August 9, 2017
Marlboro Music Festival: Tradition and Camaraderie

Continuity and tradition run deep at Marlboro.

Above and beyond the love of chamber music, a shared sense of relaxed camaraderie lure musicians and audiences back to this idyllic summer festival year after year.

Take clarinetist Charles Neidich and pianist Cynthia Raim. Both have been active at the Marlboro Music Festival for decades. Last weekend, Neidich performed music of Elliot Carter and one of his own compositions in the Marlboro College Dining Hall. Raim will perform Claude Debussy’s “En blanc et noir” for two pianos, with Xiaohui Yang, at the college’s Persons Auditorium this Saturday at 8 p.m.

Both musicians will be featured on our next “Music from Marlboro,” on The Classical Network, in selections drawn from extensive Malboro Music archive. Raim will perform Johannes Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn,” with pianist Stephanie Brown, from a concert given in 1976. Neidich will appear in George Rochberg’s Trio for Clarinet, Horn and Piano, with hornist José Vicente Castelló and pianist Igor Levit, from 2007. The program will also include Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 33, No. 4.

This year’s Marlboro Music Festival will run through August 13. For more information, look online at marlboromusic.org.

I hope you’ll join me for more inspired music-making from Marlboro Music, on “Music from Marlboro,” this Wednesday evening at 6 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

PHOTOS: Charles Neidich and Cynthia Raim

August 2, 2017
Marlboro Music Festival with Mitsuko Uchida

Each summer, the Marlboro Music School and Festival brings together the world’s most acclaimed artists and exceptional young talent in the foothills of rural, southern Vermont, for seven weeks of relaxed, inspired and joyful music-making.

This year’s festival, already underway, will continue through August 13, on the campus of Marlboro College (a separate institution). More information about Marlboro Music may be found at marlboromusic.org.

The Classical Network has been granted privileged access to the Marlboro archives, which contain many performances never before heard beyond the confines of the festival, all of them featuring chamber music luminaries and stars of tomorrow.

On the next installment of “Music from Marlboro,” it will be an all-Czech program, including works by Erwin Schulhoff – his Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon – and Antonín Dvořák, his beloved Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81. Marlboro artistic director Mitsuko Uchida will be the pianist.

I hope you’ll join me this Wednesday evening at 6 EDT, for another “Music from Marlboro,” on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

PHOTO: Marlboro artistic director Mitsuko Uchida (left)

July 19, 2017
Marlboro Music Festival Broadcasts

Since 1951, Marlboro Music has been a mecca for musicians and chamber music-lovers. The Classical Network is pleased to announce the debut of its newest broadcast concert series, “Music from Marlboro,” featuring performances from the Marlboro archive, beginning Wednesday evening at 6:00.

The Marlboro Music School and Festival brings together the world’s most acclaimed artists and exceptional young talent in the foothills of rural, southern Vermont, for seven weeks of relaxed, inspired and joyful music-making. Concerts of the Marlboro Festival can be enjoyed over five weekends, between mid-July and mid-August. This year’s festival will be held from July 15 to August 13, on the campus of Marlboro College (a separate institution). More information about Marlboro Music may be found at marlboromusic.org.

The Classical Network has been granted privileged access to the Marlboro archives, which contain many, many performances never before heard beyond the confines of the festival, all of them featuring chamber music luminaries and stars of tomorrow.

The series will commence with “Three Marches for Piano Four Hands,” by Beethoven, with an 87 year-old Mieczyslaw Horszowski and an 18 year-old Cecile Licad; the “Divertimento for 13 Solo Instruments,” by Marlboro co-founder Adolf Busch; and Carl Reinecke’s Octet for Winds in B-flat major, Op. 216. Future weeks will bring performances by Marlboro legends Rudolf Serkin, Marcel Moyse, Alexander Schneider and Pablo Casals, along with fascinating glimpses of rising stars and top musicians of tomorrow.

I hope you’ll join me Wednesdays at 6 p.m. EDT for “Music from Marlboro,” on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

PHOTO: Horszowski and Licad, teacher and pupil, share the stage at Marlboro

July 12, 2017

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