Globetrotting with Milhaud

Did Mozart write his Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano in E-flat for an evening at casa Jacquin, with the daughter—his current heartthrob Franziska—playing the piano, while he played viola and Anton Stadler played clarinet? Doesn't matter, since the work is charming, whatever its inspiration. In case you want to see the world, Darius Milhaud’s "Globetrotter Suite" will transport you to France, Portugal, Italy, the U.S., Mexico, and Brazil—around the world in under twenty minutes! Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yo-Yo Ma, and Mark Zeltser perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in C with the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. Then violinist Ida Kavafian and Irving Fine himself on piano provide a fine change of pace in Fine’s own Violin Sonata. Somei Satoh says his "Toward the Night" is the tone of dusk that resonates in his mind as he contemplates the Buddhist idea of Samsara (transmigration).
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