On this episode of Concerts Plus, host Robert Sherman and guests explore works by composers who are principally known as conductors in a program of live music and conversation. Martin Bookspan hosts the intermission feature.

This program was broadcast live before a studio audience in the WQXR Concert Theater.


From host Robert Sherman's notes:

Simca has really done it this time! I always considered myself the champion ferreter-out of forgotten music, but our Concerts-Plus Artistic Director takes us far beyond the purview even of our enormous WQXR archives. The pieces he's rounded up for tonight's program not only have hardly ever been played (or sung) in public, but they've never made their way to recordings at all. A harvest of undiscovered pleasures awaits, in other words, and I'm delighted you're here to share it with us.

The New World String Quartet
Ilan Rogoff, Anne-Marie McDermott, pianists
Ben Holt, baritone
Kerry McDermott, violinist
Special Guest: Lukas Foss, composer-pianist-conductor
Simca Heled, cellist
Robert Sherman, narrator

Antal Dorati: 2 Hungarian Peasant Songs for violin and piano (McDermotts)

Otto Klemperer: Lilly
Bruno Walter: Der junge Ehemann and Der Soldat
(Rogoff and Holt)

Paul Paray: Andante in E minor from Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano (Heled and Rogoff)

George Szell: Massig Langsam from the Piano Quintet Op.2 (1912) (Rogoff and and New World Quartet)

Lukas Foss: Round a Common Center (Foss, New World Quartet, Sherman)

WNYC archives id: 152089