By Special Invitation From WSKG: Recent Episodes
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By Special Invitation features local performances by nationally known artists, and folks who are more familiar to audiences in New York's Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions.
July 10, 2021 – Cuarteto Latinoamericano, string quartet, and Jiji, guitar by WSKG Classical
Violinst Randall Goosby and pianist Zhu Wang perform music by Tomaso Vitali, Claude Debussy, William Grant Still, and Richard Strauss from the 2019 Honest Brook Music Festival.
In an all-Schubert program, pianist Reiko Uchida performs a Piano Sonata, and then is joined by baritone Thomas Meglioranza for the song cycle Die schöne Müllerin.
Pianist Michael Brown performs music by Mendelssohn, Medtner, Beethoven, and by Michael Brown himself.
The Jasper String Quartet performs music of Haydn, Shostakovich, and Beethoven. HBMF founder Michael Cannon introduces the performers.
Recorded February 17 in Ford Hall on the Ithaca College campus, music faculty perform music that has inspired them.
Cellist Brian Manker, violinist Katherine Gradojevich Manker, and pianist Portfolio 1/11: Fading Wei-Tang Huang perform in the ballroom of the Phelps Mansion Museum as part of the Binghamton Philharmonic's Beethoven Project.
Pianist Alexei Aceto performs in the ballroom of the Phelps Mansion Museum as part of the Binghamton Philharmonic's Beethoven Project
Binghamton native, tenor Timothy Fallon, and pianist Jill Brunelle perform music by Beethoven, both Robert and Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Leonard Bernstein in the Ballroom of the Phelps Mansion Museum.
Cellist Benedict Kloeckner and pianist Andrew Armstrong perform music by Schumann, Shostakovich, and Brahms at the 2018 Honest Brook Music Festival
From the 2018 Honest Brook Music Festival; Yevgeny Kutik, violin and Randall Hodgkinson, piano
Artistic Director Susan Ashbaker is your host of the preview of Tri-Cities Opera's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'H.M.S. Pinafore'
Honest Brook Music Festival, recorded Sunday, August 9, 2015 Sebastian Baverstam, cello; Constantine Finehouse, piano
- Frederic Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-Flat, Op.61
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No.1 in G for solo cello, BWV 1007
- Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A-Flat for cello and piano, Op.70
- Johannes Brahms: Sonata No.1 in e minor for cello and piano, Op.38
Honest Brook Music Festival Concert, recorded Sunday, August 2, 2015 Claremont Trio
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Trio in C, Hob. XV:27
- Bedřich Smetana: Trio in g minor, Op.15
- Johannes Brahms: Trio in C, Op.87
- Fritz Kreisler: Liebesleid
Honest Brook Music Festival Concert, recorded Saturday, July 16, 2015 Michael Cannon, piano
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Fantasy in g minor, Op.77
- Franz Peter Schubert: Sonata in A, D.959
- Cesar Franck: Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue, Op.21
- Gabriel Faure: Nocturne No.4 in E Flat, Op.36
- Frederic Chopin: Etude Op.25 No.12, 'Ocean'
Honest Brook Music Festival Concert, recorded Saturday, July 9, 2015 Emil Altschuler, violin; Thomas Pandolfi, piano
- Manuel de Falla: Seven Popular Spanish Songs
- Robert Russell Bennett: Hexapoda, Five Studies in Jitteroptera
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Solo Violin, BWV 1002 -- Sarabande, Bouree
- Frederic Chopin: Polonaise in A, Op.40 No.1, 'Military'; Nocturne in E Flat, Op.9 No.2; Etude in c minor, Op.10 No.12, 'Revolutionary'
- Francis Poulenc: Violin Sonata, Op.119
- Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen
- Jules Massenet: Meditation from 'Thais'