KUHF-DaCamera Podcast

Les Noces

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:44:00 +0000

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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Ben Allison Band

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:33:00 +0000

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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Spirit of England

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:29:00 +0000

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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Seymour Lipkin

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:49:00 +0000

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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Italian Romantics

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:18:00 +0000

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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The performance and this podcast were made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

Modern Virtuosos

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:49:56 +0000

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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The performance and this podcast were made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

Da Camera Podcast: Preludes and Fugues: Bach and Shostakovich

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:35:11 +0000

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.
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The performance and this podcast were made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

Franz Liszt’s Via Crucis, 14 Stations of the Cross for chorus and piano

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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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The performance was made possible by Finger Companies and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Da Camera Podcast: Chiara String Quartet at The Menil Collection

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:51:33 +0000

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.
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The performance and this podcast were made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

Da Camera Podcast: Brentano String Quartet: Poetry and Music, Immigrants and Exiles

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:12:50 +0000

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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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.

Da Camera Podcast: Zhou Long's The Farewell and Mahler's Der Abschied

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:31:07 +0000

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 More for a complete list of the artists.
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This January 2009 performance was made possible in part by a generous grant from the Arthur Judson Foundation and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Da Camera Podcast: episode number four

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:59:46 +0000

partnership with Houston's Da Camera- 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.

Da Camera Podcast: Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:08:41 +0000

This podcast- the fourth in our partnership with Houston's Da Camera- 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.
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This May 2008 performance was made possible in part by a generous gift from Sterling Bank.

Release schedule: monthly.

For more podcasts in this series, visit the Da Camera/KUHF podcast page on kuhf.org.

You can also find Da Camera/KUHF podcasts on the Da Camera website.

Da Camera Podcast: Mozart’s Horn Quintet in E Flat Major

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:52:45 +0000

This podcast- the third in our partnership with Houston's Da Camera- 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. Click here for more information on this piece.

This performance was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

Release schedule: monthly.

For more podcasts in this series, visit the Da Camera/KUHF podcast page on kuhf.org.

You can also find Da Camera/KUHF podcasts on the Da Camera website.

Brahms’s Quintet for Piano and Strings

webmaster@kuhf.org (KUHF and DaCamera of Houston) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:00:56 +0000

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. Click here for more detailed information on this piece.