Be on the listen for Houston Music Highlights, Tuesday through Friday on Houston Public Media Classical! These 6-minute highlights feature local musicians and ensembles such as the Houston Symphony, the Apollo Chamber Players, and numerous others each week. Houston Music Highlights air at 7 AM, and then repeat at 1 PM, 6 PM, and 10 PM.
This week's Highlights include something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue – in the form of Beethoven and Debussy, music by a contemporary American composer, and a cello transcription featured on a made-in-Texas album called The Blue Rock Sessions.
Tuesday
Mélodie in E-flat major, Op. 42, No. 3: Tchaikovsky (arr. Heifetz/Tsang)
Bion Tsang, cello; Cecilia Lo-Chien Kao, piano
Wednesday
Symphony No. 8 in F major – II. Allegretto scherzando: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed in the Wortham Center's Cullen Theater on May 23, 2015
Thursday
The Fiction Issue (excerpt): Gabriel Kahane*
Brooklyn Rider; Shara Worden, vocals; Gabriel Kahane, vocals
The Fiction Issue
*Aperio: Music of the Americas presents Gabriel Kahane in concert on April 1, 2017.
Friday
String Quartet in G minor – II. Assez vif et bien rhytmé: Claude Debussy
Da Camera: Quatuor Ébène* (Pierre Colombet, violin; Gabriel Le Magadure, violin; Mathieu Herzog, viola; Raphaël Merlin, cello)
Performed at the Hobby Center's Zilka Hall on April 15, 2011
*Chamber Music Houston presents Quatuor Ébène on March 28, 2017.
