This week on Cued Up, we sample works that embody the sounds of Eastern Europe, India and Asia from a bevy of in-concert recordings of music by Chen Yi, Tigran Mansuryan, Evan Ziporyn, Lei Liang and more.
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This week on Cued Up, we sample works that embody the sounds of Eastern Europe, India and Asia from a bevy of in-concert recordings of music by Chen Yi, Tigran Mansuryan, Evan Ziporyn, Lei Liang and more.
Beethoven composed dozens of settings of folk tunes from non-German countries. Tonight, Terrance McKnight samples a few gems. Plus: the composer's oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives.
For WQXR's Beethoven Awareness Month, Q2 Music gets back to its "500 Years of New-Music" roots and pays homage to the genre where the many strands of the composer's creative persona come into sharpest focus -- the piano concerto. Every night at 10 pm throughout November, Q2 Music streams back-to-back piano concertos, the ...