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The Savannah Music Festival (SMF) is Georgia's largest musical arts event and one of the most distinctive cross-genre music festivals in the world.

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SMF Live 928 - Arnaldo Cohen 14.12.2016 59:02

The Brazilian born pianist Arnaldo Cohen, now living in the U.S., has long had a reputation for astonishing his audiences with the musical authority and blistering virtuosity of his performances. His grateful and unaffected platform manner belies playing of white-hot intensity, intellectual probity and glittering bravura technique bordering on sheer wizardry. In this episode, we listen to Arnaldo...

SMF Live 926 - Murray Perahia 14.12.2016 59:03

Every once in a while, a performer seems to transcend the experience of giving a recital for an audience into something vastly fulfilling for themselves. When it happens, the result is powerful and revelatory, and it usually leaves the audience hungry for more. In the 40+ years that Murray Perahia has been performing on the concert stage, he has become one of the most cherished and sought-after pi...

SMF Live 924 - Great Concertos 2016 14.12.2016 59:02

The word "concerto" is derived from the Italian concertare, which means "to reach an agreement." Concertos have been written for all the instruments of the orchestra, but the vast majority are written for violin cello or piano, as these three instruments feature a wide dynamic and expressive range. In this episode, we feature several masterpieces of the form, performed by German chamber orchestra...

SMF Live 923 - Haas Kowert Tice 14.12.2016 59:03

In this episode, we listen to the SMF debut of the trio Haas Kowert Tice, made up of Brittany Haas (Dave Rawlings Machine, Crooked Still) on fiddle, Paul Kowert (Punch Brothers) on bass and Jordan Tice (Tony Trischka Band) on guitar. These three young acoustic musicians have already covered a lot of territory in their careers, and all three were participants in SMF's first Acoustic Music Seminar (...

Savannah Music Festival LIVE 922 - Joey Alexander Trio 20.10.2016 59:03

Stories of child prodigies in the world of music have a long history, going back to such luminaries as Mozart, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn. Jazz pianist Joey Alexander was discovered in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2012 around the age of eight. Joey might be the most talked-about young musician that jazz has seen in decades. He gave this SMF debut performance in 2016 at the age of twelve.

SMF Live 918 - Balsam Range 20.10.2016 59:02

Balsam Range is an award-winning bluegrass band named after the majestic mountain range in their home of Haywood County, where the Smokies meet the Blue Ridge. They perform finely crafted songs with tightly woven harmonies, and have established themselves as one of the most in-demand ensembles in bluegrass. This episode features their 2015 performance at SMF.

SMF Live 916 - Schubert Piano, Early and Late 22.09.2016 59:03

Composer Franz Schubert is perhaps the single instance of a great artist whose outer life had no affinity or connection with art. His career was simple and uneventful, so out of all proportion with the works which he created like a heaven-sent genius, that we must at last turn to them mainly if we would form any estimate of the golden treasures concealed in his heart and spirit. In this episode, w...

SMF Live 915 - Beethoven Piano Trios, Part Two 22.09.2016 59:03

As with the symphony and the string quartet, the piano trio was inherited by Beethoven and transformed into a vehicle for the most deeply felt musical expression. In this episode, we listen to the second half of the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Trios, performed by David Finckel, Wu Han and Philip Setzer at the 2016 Savannah Music Festival.

SMF Live 914 - Musical Friendships 22.09.2016 59:03

In the mid-1870s when Johannes Brahms served on the jury of the Austrian state stipendium, he encountered a submission from an obscure Czech composer whose mastery and talent overwhelmed him. Brahms immediately became a huge supporter of Antonin Dvorák, and also arranged for some of Dvorák's work to be given to his own publisher. The friendship between the two composers is a relationship that is n...

SMF Live 913 - Vicente Amigo - Part Two 22.09.2016 59:03

Flamenco guitarist Vicente Amigo made his southeastern U.S. debut at the 2016 Savannah Music Festival. This episode is part two of two.

SMF Live 912 - Beethoven Piano Trios - Part One 22.09.2016 59:03

As with the symphony and the string quartet, the piano trio was inherited by Beethoven and transformed into a vehicle for the most deeply felt musical expression. In this episode, we listen to the first half of the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Trios, performed by David Finckel, Wu Han and Philip Setzer at the 2016 Savannah Music Festival.

56 Moñas (flute and saxophone) 29.08.2016 0:23