On Saturday’s encore broadcast, we feature 13-year-old cellist Noah Chen from Chicago. Noah is a student of Hans Jorgen Jensen of Northwestern University. Noah was a winner at the 2017 DePaul Concerto Festival, and he was also the winner of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras (CYSO) 2016 Concerto Competition. As a result, he was featured as soloist with the CYSO …
REBROADCAST: Noah Chen, 13, cello
Playlist
Cello Sonata in C major, G.6, by Luigi Boccherini
5 Stücke im Volkston, Op.102 (Five Pieces in Folk Style), by Robert Schumann
Concert Polonaise, Op.14, by David Popper
REBROADCAST: Kartoshka Quartet
The Kartoshka Quartet On Saturday’s encore broadcast, we feature Kartoshka Quartet of Midwest Young Artists Conservatory (MYAC) in Highwood, Illinois. The members of the quartet include 16-year-old violinist Rachel Hsu, 17-year-old violinist Eleanor Goes, 18-year-old violist Sofiya Kyrylyuk, and 18-year-old cellist Julia Ilhardt. They are coached by Desirée Ruhstrat. Kartoshka Quartet was formed at MYAC in 2016 and has performed …
Playlist
String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, Allegro vivo appassianato, by Bedřich Smetana
String Quartet in D, Op. 20, No. 4, Presto Scherzando, by Joseph Haydn
Crisantemi, by Giacomo Puccini
String Quartet No. 2 “Demons and Angels, Inner Demons, by Stacy Garrop
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra 2017 Central Europe Tour
On Saturday’s broadcast, we feature highlight recordings from the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s (CYSO) tour to Central Europe. In June 2017, the CYSO embarked on a tour across Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. On June 28, 2017, the orchestra performed in Dvorak Hall, Prague’s concert hall. The orchestra even performed Dvorak’s Carnival Overture, which was premiered in that …
Playlist
Carnival Overture, by Antonín Dvořák
Conga del fuego nuevo, by Arturo Márquez
Symphony No. 6, Op. 74 (Pathétique), Movements 3 and 4, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Manou Magdalena Chakravorty, 14, cello and EYSO Earl Clemens Wind Quintet
On Saturday’s broadcast, we feature 14-year-old cellist Manou Magdalena Chakravorty and the Earl Clemens Wind Quintet of the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra. Manou Magdalena Chakravorty is a freshman at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. She started cello at the age of four with Karen Schulz-Harmon and now studies with Richard Hirschl and Oleksa Mycyk. Recently, Manou was a semi-finalist …
Playlist
Prelude from Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, by Johann Sebastian Bach
Manou Magdalena Chakravorty, cello
7 Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” (“In Men Who Feel Love”) from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, by Ludwig van Beethoven
Manou Magdalena Chakravorty, cello; Jason Chen, piano
Cello Sonata in E minor, 1st movement, by Johannes Brahms
Manou Magdalena Chakravorty, cello; Jason Chen, piano
Flight of the Bumblebee, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Manou Magdalena Chakravorty, cello; Jason Chen, piano
Minuet for Wind Instruments, by Blas María de Colomer
Earl Clemens Wind Quintet (Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra)
On the Gravity of Crisis, by Ethan Parcell
Earl Clemens Wind Quintet (Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra)
Three Shanties, by Malcom Arnold
Earl Clemens Wind Quintet (Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra)
Riccardo Muti and CSO Dedicate Performance to Victims of Northern California Fires during West Coast Tour
CSO music director Riccardo Muti decided to dedicate an encore to victims after a concert in Berkeley, where the orchestra had a multi-day residency.
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REBROADCAST: Robert Sanders, 18, violin and David Caplan, 17, cello
On Saturday’s encore broadcast, we feature two recent graduates of Niles North High School in Skokie: 18 year old violinist Robert Sanders and 17 year old cellist David Caplan. Robert and David have known each other since middle school, and they have performed together for numerous years. Recently, Robert and David won the Gold Medal with their quartet, Quartet Bellezza …
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Four Songs of Solitude, Song 1, by John Harbison
Performed by Robert Sanders -
Sonata in E Minor, K. 304, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Robert Sanders -
Syncopation, by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Robert Sanders -
Allegro non troppo from Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38, by Johannes Brahms
Performed by David Caplan -
Moderato from Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 119, by Sergei Prokofiev
Performed by David Caplan -
Prelude, by Shostakovich
Performed by both Robert Sanders and David Caplan