(AGENPARL) – mar 05 aprile 2022 Watch these videos just added to the Library of Congress website.
In honor of the 2022 Gershwin Prize, join us for a live conversation with Lionel Richie and Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
The Catalyst Quartet, one of America’s great string quartets, has been adding new and established works by under-represented voices to the repertoire through commissions and advocacy for over a decade. This performance begins with three such works – the “Fantasiestücke” of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Price’s “Five Folksongs in Counterpoint”, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s String Quartet entitled “Calvary”. In a special collaboration, Catalyst Quartet will be joined by the Imani Winds in a performance of Jessie Montgomery’s nonet “Sergeant McCauley”.
Watch a conversation with the Catalyst String Quartet for a discussion on their wide-ranging activities as a quartet and the program they recorded for the Library.
After a string of significant pre-pandemic accolades that included a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and the title of 2019 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist of the Year, the Castalian String Quartet returns to the stage to show audiences why this is such a special group. Taking a break from their residency at Oxford University, the Castalians showcase some of the most powerful music for quartet penned by Mozart, Hensel and Schubert.
French-American harpsichordist Justin Taylor talks about his recital titled “Fandango”, a program of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and Antonio Soler. Taylor discusses aspects of the vibrant, cosmopolitan European musical culture that influenced both composers, including the world of Italian opera coloring Scarlatti’s dramatic, operatic writing for the keyboard.