Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F-sharp minor, BWV 883 (Book 2 of The Well-Tempered Clavier) by Johann Sebastian Bach. Evelyn Crochet, piano.
“Andantino in modo di canzona,” the second movement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony.
Bill Bennett (1956-2013), member of SFS since 1979, principal oboist since 1987. Rest in Peace.
“When Your Lover Has Gone.” Erroll Garner, piano. Eddie Calhoun, bass. Kelly Martin, drum set.
“Cantelowes.” Toumani Diabaté, (legendary) kora player. The kora is a 21-stringed harp-like instrument of West Africa, which includes the countries of Mali, Ghana, and Gambia, among others. Live at El Real Alcázar of Seville, Spain.
“Lullaby” from The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti. Kristyn Christman-McCarty, mezzo-soprano. Allison Peden, piano. Recorded at SUNY Fredonia, April 2012.
npr:
Beneath The xx’s tightly controlled image-making lays music that’s raw and vulnerable; shy, worried tentativeness is wired into a sound that shimmers powerfully, but remains as fragile and delicate as a soap bubble.
Watch The xx play the Tiny Desk.
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Newest Tiny Desk concert, enjoy. -L
Adagio-Allegro, the first movement of Mozart’s 1785 “Dissonance” String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, KV. 465. Performed by the Alban Berg Quartet.
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“Carmen Cubana” from Classic Meets Cuba by Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion.
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“Alborada del Gracioso” (“The Comedian’s Aubade”), the fourth movement of Maurice Ravel’s piano suite Miroirs. Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano.
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Samuel Barber’s Overture to The School for Scandal, composed in 1933. Dr. Camilla Kolchinsky conducts the El Camino Youth Symphony.
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