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Monday, October 11, 2004
  • Sailboat

    Setting Sail on Columbus Day

    It’s Columbus Day, and soon after our show begins—and not too long before it ends—the Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa Maria will set sail...

Pieter Wispelwey will bring us another of his remarkable authentic-instrument performances (he is playing an anonymous 18th-century violoncello piccolo) of a Bach Gamba Sonata, this time No. 2 in D. Then, thanks to Kurt Weill, pianist and composer, we hear ‘The Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa Maria’ travel forth from his “Where Do We Go from Here.”

In our second hour, Andras Schiff works his pianist magic on Schubert’s “Wanderer” Fantasy. If you ever wondered who was wandering where, or why the nickname, it seems that a famous song, “Der Wanderer,” is quoted in the slow movement. Later, Gershwin enthusiasts will be happy to hear his Piano Concerto in F played by Garrick Ohlsson, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony. That will be one great performance!

C. P. E. Bach’s delightful Flute Concerto in A will be presented by soloist Robert Aitken, tootling along with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra under Mario Bernardi. Then, as the evening winds down, we’ll hear Wagner’s seldom performed Overture to his friend Theodor Apel’s play, “Columbus.” And the Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa Maria will embark anew...

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