Scott Yoo playing the violin and pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute as part of Great Performances: Now Hear This “Amy Beach: American Romantic.” Photo by Arcos Film & Music.
These Spotify tracks are a source of wonderment and new experiences for me. Before creating season 3 of Great Performances: Now Hear This, the music of Florence Price, Reena Esmail, and Sergio Assad was less familiar to me. Now these pieces feel like friends that you’ve just met, that feel like you’ve known them forever.
Some of these performers I first met decades ago: Cecile Licad and the wonderful Neeme Järvi. Others, like Er-Gene Kahng and Vijay Gupta, I met on location during filming. They are as engaging as performers as they are as people. I hope you enjoy these wonderful works!
AMY BEACH
Symphony in E minor, op. 32 “Gaelic Symphony”
Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Järvi
Piano Quintet / Theme and Variations for Flute and String Quartet
Ambache
“Hermit Thrush at Morn,” op. 92/2
Cecile Licad
FLORENCE PRICE
“Adoration”
Randall Goosby and Zhu Wang
Piano Sonata in E minor
Cole Burger
Violin Concerto No. 1 and 2
Er-Gene Kahng, Ryan Cockerham, Janacek Philharmonic
AARON COPLAND
“Fanfare for the Common Man”
Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra
“Appalachian Spring”
Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra
“Quiet City”
Celia Nicklin, Michael Laird, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
SERGIO ASSAD
“Farewell”
Sergio Assad, Thibault Cauvin
“Mangabeira”
Sergio Assad, Trio Virado
REENA ESMAIL
Piano Trio
Vijay Gupta, Suzana Bartal, Peter Myers
“Darshan”
Vijay Gupta
