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WCPE's 'Preview!'

Sunday May 12th at 6PM EST

Among the works featured on Preview! this weekend will be Samuel Barber’s String Quartet from a new 2013 CD release entitled “American Anthem: Music of Barber and Hanson” by the Ying Quartet. You’ll hear Ferdinand Ries' Piano Concerto in E flat performed by Christopher Hinterhubler and the New Zealand Symphony.

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Wavelengths for Sunday, May 19, 2013

This week on WCPE's Wavelengths we'll feature violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson in a double concerto they commissioned for their 25th wedding anniversary, Richard Danielpour's "In the Arms of the Beloved." This 2001 composition is inspired by works of the 13th century Persian poet, Rumi.

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Rachel Barton Pine: Violin Lullabies

May WCPE CD of the Month at Quail Ridge Books & Music

Rachel Barton Pine: Violin Lullabies

“My first exposure to music was not at a concert. It was not on the radio. It was the sound of my mother’s voice as she sang a lullaby to me, just as her mother had sung to her, and her mother before her.” — Rachel Barton Pine

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    Otto Klemperer 1885
    Alan Marks 1949
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    Claudio Monteverdi 1567
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    Andrew Litton 1959
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    Dennis Brain 1921
    Paul Crossley 1944
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    Karl Goldmark 1830
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