Geoff Nuttall: Opening remarks
What REALLY motivated Haydn to write this rollicking piano trio in London?
What REALLY motivated Haydn to write this rollicking piano trio in London?
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Violinist Scott St. Johnn, cellist Christopher Costanza, and pianist Pedja Muzijjevic play what’s arguably Haydn’s most famous piano trio, with it’s “Rondo A l’Ungarese” finale.
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Piano Trio No. 39 in G major, Hob. 25
Scott St. John, violin
Christopher Costanza, cello
Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Geoff Nuttall & Jonathan Berger introduce Brahms

Jonathan Berger “Plays” Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 1, as laid down by Brahms himself on an Edison cylinder and magically recreated by Berger and his students at Stanford into a piano four-hand arrangement.
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
Jonathan Berger, piano
Geoff Nuttal introduces the Brahms Piano Quartet

Next, some Brahms made brand-new: Pianist Inon Barnatan anchors a rollicking performance of the Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25, by Brahms, joining Livia Sohn, violin; Barry Shiffman, viola; and Alisa Weilerstein, cello. (Inon Barnatan is a featured guest on today’s Spoleto Today)
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Livia Sohn, violin
Barry Shiffman, viola
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Inon Barnatan, piano
Dvorak’s Seventh
Moving up I-26, Music Director Morihiko Nakahara leads the South Carolina Philharmonic in a Koger Center concert performance of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70.
ANTONIN DVORAK: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Morihiko Nakahara, conductor, South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra
Moving up I-26, Music Director Morihiko Nakahara leads the South Carolina Philharmonic in a Koger Center concert performance of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70.
ANTONIN DVORAK: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Morihiko Nakahara, conductor, South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra
Farewell, Philemon!
We bid farewell to our Spoleto residency with an exit worthy of the Gods - quarter-sized Gods, that is! From Haydn’s charming puppet opera “Philemon & Baucis,” one of the hits of the 2010 Spoleto Festival, we’ll hear the closing chorus “Triumph of the God of all Gods.”
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Philemon & Baucis
We bid farewell to our Spoleto residency with an exit worthy of the Gods - quarter-sized Gods, that is! From Haydn’s charming puppet opera “Philemon & Baucis,” one of the hits of the 2010 Spoleto Festival, we’ll hear the closing chorus “Triumph of the God of all Gods.”
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Philemon & Baucis