Category: Music

Posted on January 11, 2010 · This podcast features excerpts from Da Camera's November 2009 concert Modern Virtuosos. Three virtuosos perform solo works by a major 20th century composer and two composers active today. Saxophonist Valerie Vidal plays Luciano Berio's Sequenza 9b for alto saxophone. Violinist Jennifer Koh performs Esa-Pekka Salonen's Lachen Verlernt. Pianist Marilyn Nonken plays the Fall, Winter and Summer movements from Liza Lim's The Four Seasons (After Cy Twombly.) > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts

Posted on December 7, 2009 · This podcast features an April 2004 concert by the Sarah Rothenberg and John Gibbons at The Menil Collection. Selected pieces from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 are preformed by pianist Sarah Rothenberg and harpsichordist John Gibbons. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts

Posted on November 1, 2009 · This Da Camera podcast features Franz Liszt's Via Crucis, 14 Stations of the Cross for chorus and piano. This rarely-performed work was part of the May, 2009 concert After Bach, a collaboration between Da Camera of Houston and Houston Chamber Choir.

Posted on September 8, 2009 · This podcast features an excerpt from the April 2009 concert by the Chiara String Quartet at The Menil Collection. Composer Richard Lavenda's quintet, Thoughts Fly, is performed by the Chiara String Quartet and cellist Norman Fischer. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts

Posted on July 15, 2009 · This podcast features excerpts from the February 2009 concert, Brentano String Quartet: Poetry and Music, Immigrants and Exiles. The performers are the Brentano String Quartet; baritone Leon Williams and pianists Sarah Rothenberg and Rodney Waters. > more detailed information on this piece > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts

Posted on June 16, 2009 · This concert podcast features two works from Da Camera's January 2009 concert, Songs of the Earth. The artists participating in these January 2009 performances were soprano Susanne Mentzer, Min Xiao-Fen, pipa; Wang Guowei, erhu and a Da Camera Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gregory Vajda. Click on Read More for a complete list of the artists. > click for more information on this piece > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts

Posted on May 12, 2009 · This podcast- the fourth in our partnership with Houston's Da Camera- features Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, performed by the outstanding ensemble of David Shifrin, clarinet; Vera Beths, violin, Desmond Hoebig, cello and Sarah Rothenberg, piano. > click for more information on this piece > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts

Posted on April 14, 2009 · This podcast- the third in our partnership with Houston's Da Camera- features Mozart's Horn Quintet in E Flat Major, K. 407, performed by William VerMeulen, horn; Curtis Macomber, violin; Toby Appel and Wayne Brooks, violas and Norman Fischer, cello. The performance was part of 2006's MozartNOW Festival, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the great composer's birth. Click here for more information on this piece.

Posted on February 26, 2009 · This podcast features Brahms's Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor, Opus 34, performed by pianist and Da Camera Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg and the Brentano String Quartet. The concert took place in October, 2006 and was made possible in part by support from Continental Airlines, the official airline of Da Camera of Houston. Click here for more detailed information on this piece.

Posted on December 18, 2008 · This podcast features Mozart's Quintet for clarinet and strings in A Major, K. 581, performed by the outstanding ensemble of David Shifrin, clarinet; Vera Beths, violin; John Marcus, violin; James Dunham, viola and Desmond Hoebig, cello. The performance was part of the concert After Einstein: Music and the Relativity of Time, which concluded Da Camera 2007/2008 season. Click here for more information on this piece.