June 17-18, 2017: Jennifer Higdon is a major figure in contemporary Classical music, receiving the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and a 2010 Grammy for her Percussion Concerto. On this broadcast of Intermountain Classics I am pleased to bring you three exceptional works by this wonderful American composer: her Concerto for Orchestra, a piano trio called “Pale Yellow” and a work for concert band called “Fanfare Ritmico”. Our program opener was “Summer Shimmers”, a work which Higdon says depicts the summers she spent in Tennessee as a teen. Later in the program we hear one of the most intense and exciting blockbusters of piano literature, the amazing Piano Concerto No. 2 by Johannes Brahms. So stay tuned for some beautiful music right here on Intermountain Classics!
You can hear Intermountain Classics every Saturday night and Sunday morning, on your community radio Station for Redding and Shasta County, KKRN 88.5 FM and on the web at www.kkrn.org.
Higdon-Fanfare Ritmico (North Texas Wind Symphony conducted by Eugene Migliaro Corporon) [7.07]
Higdon-Concerto for Orchestra (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano) [35.11]
Higdon-Piano Trio “Pale Yellow” (American Piano Trio-St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory) [8.01]
Hour 2:
Brahms-Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major Opus 83 (Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Bernard Haitink, with Emmanuel Ax, piano) [48.00]
