November 2003
November 2 - November 9 - November 16 - November 23 - November 30

Renée Fleming, soprano; Richard Bado, piano
November 2, 2003
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	Richard Bado and Renée Fleming with Host Bill McGlaughlin

Jewel Song
Whenever she lifts her voice, American soprano Renée Fleming commands a beauty of tone, intelligence, and presence that are hers alone. She is truly a singer for our time. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Bill McGlaughlin welcomes Ms. Fleming and her long-time friend and collaborator Richard Bado for a program that draws freely from her rich stylistic palette. We'll hear two songs of Richard Strauss; arias by Puccini, Catalani, Gounod, and André Previn; and several American works, including Harold Arlen's "Over the Rainbow," and a timely new song by Gene Scheer that recalls poignant memories of war.

Renée Fleming Web site

Richard Strauss: Schlechtes Wetter
Richard Strauss: Cäcilie
Giacomo Puccini: O Mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi
Alfredo Catalani: Ebben? ne andrò lontana, from La Wally
Charles Gounod: Jewel Song, from Faust
André Previn: I Want Magic! from A Streetcar Named Desire
Richard Rodgers: Hello Young Lovers, from The King and I
Harold Arlen/arr. Larry Ham: Over the Rainbow
Traditional/arr. Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour: Two Rivers (The Water is Wide and
Shenandoah)
Gene Scheer/arr. Lee Musiker: Holding Each Other

For information about Renée Fleming recordings visit Public Radio Musicsource.

Imani Winds
November 9, 2003
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	Imani Winds

Imani—literally "faith" in Swahili—embodies the mission of Imani Winds: to bridge European and African musical traditions, to explore repertoire of diverse cultures, and to reflect its five members' own rich experiences as classical musicians of color. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, each of these aspirations shines. We'll hear original works by two members of the quintet, music of Czech composer Josef Bohuslav Förster, and "Tom Cats," a charming narrated movement from Luciano Berio's Opus No. Zoo.

Imani Winds Web site

John Rosamond Johnson, arr. Valerie Coleman: Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
Valerie Coleman: Concerto for Wind Quintet
I. Afro
II. Vocalise
III. Danza
Jeff Scott: Homage to Duke
Luciano Berio: Opus No. Zoo
IV. Tom Cats
Josef Bohuslav Förster: Kvintet, Op. 95
I. Allegro Moderato
Valerie Coleman: Umoja

Gottlieb Wallisch, piano
November 16, 2003
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	Gottlieb Wallisch

Vienna Son
The acclaimed young Viennese pianist Gottlieb Wallisch visits Saint Paul Sunday this week for a program that explores his instrument's subjective and coloristic possibilities to their fullest. We'll hear a Mozart fantasy that ventures beyond traditional classical boundaries into stormy Romantic territory. A vivid sound-picture of Moorish Spain—Debussy's La soirée dans Grenade—follows. And last up is Robert Schumann's "Carnaval," a coded panoply of the composer's loves, theatrical passions, and alter egos. Mr. Wallisch inhabits each work with the virtuosity for which he is already warmly noted.

Gottlieb Wallisch Web site

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Phantasie in c minor, KV 475
Claude-Achille Debussy: "La soirée dans Grenade" (from Estampes)
Robert Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9

The Johannes String Quartet
November 23, 2003
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	Johannes String Quartet

Cream of the Crop
What happens when four of the world's top orchestral musicians join forces to play chamber music? Find out this week when the Johannes Quartet brings us dazzling performances of quartets by Haydn and Berg. The foursome includes the concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony, the associate principal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the principal cello of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the first American to win the Paganini Violin Competition in 24 years. When exploring the quartet literature they love, however, titles don't matter: passion, virtuosity and poetry do.

Johannes String Quartet Web site

Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in D major, Op. 76, No. 5
Alban Berg: String Quartet, Op. 3

Colin Carr, cello; Lee Luvisi, piano
Guest host
Ara Guzelimian
Senior Director and Artistic Advisor at Carnegie Hall
November 30, 2003
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	Colin Carr
	Lee Luvisi

Teutonic Trio
Cellist Colin Carr and pianist Lee Luvisi first met in Mr. Carr's twenties and have been making music together ever since. The acclaimed duo brings cello music of three German composers whose lives and art often intertwined. Robert Schumann's moving "Adagio and Allegro" opens the program, followed by a supreme work of the solo cello repertoire, the Sarabande from J.S. Bach's sixth cello suite. As if to tie the whole together, the performers finish with the first cello sonata of Johannes Brahms, a composer whom Schumann mentored and who drew heavily on Bach's "Art of the Fugue" in the sonata's last movement.

Colin Carr performing on Saint Paul Sunday, June 2000
Colin Carr performing in Music@Menlo, August 2003

Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Opus 70
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello suite No. 6 in D major
--Sarabande
Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano in e minor, Opus 38

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