As part of its Winter and Summer Festivals, Seattle Chamber Music Society presents informal, in-depth discussions with Classical KING FM 98.1 host Dave Beck and Festival musicians. These Classical Conversation Podcast interviews give an inside look at the Chamber Music repertoire performed during the Festivals with world-class performers’ insight. Dave Beck and Jeremy Jolley, Producers. Bill Levey, Recording Engineer and Technical Production.
SCMS’s Pianist Andrew Armstrong and KING FM host Dave Beck provide in-depth commentary and musical conversation about Sergei Rachmaninov’s Trio No. 1 for Violin, Cello, and Piano in G minor “Élégiaque”, Claude Debussy’s Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in G Major, William Walton’s Quartet for Piano and Strings, and Béla Bartók’s Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, Sz. 111 – Works performed during the 2012 Summer Festival, July 2-29 at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Benaroya Hall, Seattle.
SCMS’s Pianist Jeremy Denk and KING FM host Dave Beck provide in-depth commentary and musical conversation circling around the Johannes Brahms’ Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op. 35, and Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos for Two Pianos, Sz. 108 – performed during the 2012 Summer Festival, July 2-29 at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Benaroya Hall, Seattle – and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32, Op. 111 and György Ligeti’s Etudes for piano (1985-2001) – all musical examples are performed by Jeremy Denk.
SCMS’s Artistic Director James Ehnes and KING FM host Dave Beck provide in-depth commentary and musical conversation about Sergei Prokofiev’s Trapeze, Op. 39, John Adams’ Hallelujah Junction for two Pianos, Béla Bartók’s Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, Sz. 111 and Mikrokosmos for two pianos, Sz. 108 (1940), and Gary Kulesha, SCMS 2012 Summer Festival Commissioned Composer – Works performed during the 2012 Summer Festival, July 2-29 at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Benaroya Hall, Seattle.
SCMS’s Artistic Director James Ehnes and KING FM host Dave Beck provide in-depth commentary and musical conversation about the three Brahms String Quartets, Bartok’s fourth String Quartet, and Dvorak’s Bagatelles for Two Violins, Cello and Harmonium, Op. 47 – Works performed during the 2012 Winter Festival, Feb. 2-5 at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Benaroya Hall, Seattle.
