WETV 2013 Spoleto broadcast today (28/4/16) - Schumann & Bruch

[Scion7]

At 7pm E.S.T. I was listening to FM 91.3 as I was driving home through central South Carolina, and they re-broadcast two pieces from the 2013 Spoleto Festival in Charleston.

ROBERT SCHUMANN-Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op.47   (June 5)
Daniel Phillips, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello; Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

MAX BRUCH-String Octet in B-flat  [June 8]
Scott St. John, Daniel Phillips, Livia Sohn, and Geoff Nuttall, violins; Hsin-Yun Huang and Lesley Robertson, violas;
Christopher Costanza, cello; Anthony Manzo, bass

Excellent performances - the Schumann quartet is legendary - Bruch's Octet is from 1920 and not bad, but not his greatest work.

[Pat B]

I had never heard of the Spoleto Festival until a few months ago, when I heard (via broadcast) a really fun version of the Trout Quintet.

[Scion7]

It (officially) started in Charleston in 1977 by Menotti.
I have been to the opening festival in '77, and in '79 and in '83.
Boston and Charleston are the two major rivals here in the Colonies - but Charleston has nicer weather (as long as a hurricane doesn't drop by for tea . . . )

Wonderful series of concerts.  I've caught a few on tv - including a tremendous performance of the last movement of Shostakovich's e-minor Piano Trio #2, Op.67  with Andre Previn on piano - can't remember off the top of my head who the other rather famous players were, the violinist was an attractive brunette (possibly Joan Kwuon, but I seem to remember her as a caucasian) - was only surpassed for a live performance by the Greenwich Trio playing a televised gig in Slovakia (which is on the web if you search).  Over the years there have been a lot of politics over the festival to the chagrin of the artists and attendees but it has continued to thrive despite the wars over who has 'control.'  Like anything else in Charleston, parking is a &#$%!! , so be prepared to walk and to wait.

There are podcasts available here and there sporadically of what public television and/or radio broadcasts but one must move fast as - like the BBC - they have a habit of removing them (seemingly forever) after a week or so.  Damn their eyes.