Program 819: Mid-Century Masterpieces
KALW Broadcast Date: March 30, 2025 | Host: Joseph Bohigian
This program features mid-20th century American piano works and recordings by pianist Geoffrey Burleson in anticipation of Burleson’s From Antheil to Zappa recital in Oakland on Saturday, April 5, 2025. The program opens with an archival Ode to Gravity program from 1970 in which host Charles Amirkhanian plays keyboard works by Norman Dello Joio, Samuel Barber, Igor Stravinsky, and Harold Shapero. In the second half, we’ll hear Geoffrey Burleson’s recordings of solo piano works by Vincent Persichetti and Roy Harris, along with Nathan Williamson’s recording of Leonard Bernstein’s 1938 Piano Sonata.
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Title: Ode To Gravity: The Melodious Keypunch: Keyboard works of Dello Joio, Barber, Stravinsky, & Shapero
Record Label: Other Minds Archives
Title: Sonata No. 10, Op. 67 (1955)
Composer: Vincent Persichetti
Performer: Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Recording Title: Vincent Persichetti: Complete Piano Sonatas
Record Label: New World Records
Catalog Number: 80677
Title: Sonata No. 12 (Mirror Sonata), Op. 145 (1982)
Composer: Vincent Persichetti
Performer: Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Recording Title: Vincent Persichetti: Complete Piano Sonatas
Record Label: New World Records
Catalog Number: 80677
Title: Piano Sonata (1938)
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Performer: Nathan Williamson, piano
Recording Title: Great American Sonatas
Record Label: Somm
Catalog Number: SOMMCD 0163
Title: Little Suite (1938)
Composer: Roy Harris
Performer: Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Recording Title: Roy Harris: Complete Piano Music
Record Label: Naxos
Catalog Number: 8.559664
