WCPE FM Features a Primarily Piano Weekend

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WCPE FM Features the Piano
TheClassicalStation.org offers Primarily Piano Weekend

WCPE's Music Director William Woltz announces Primarily Piano Weekend on May 12-14, 2016. The program will feature great composers as well as virtuoso performances.

"We'll play master pianists of the twentieth century, such as Van Cliburn and Artur Rubinstein," says Woltz. "We also feature some of today's best young performers-Daniil Trifonov, Alexandre Tharaud, Elizabeth Joy Roe and Yuja Wang, to name a few."

A partial listing includes:
12 Friday
7:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 15 in D (Pastoral)
8:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no. 3 in C
9:00 p.m. Fauré: Piano Quartet no. 1 in C Minor
10:00 p.m. Field: Nocturne in E ("Nocturne Pastorale")

13 Saturday
7:00 a.m. Schumann: Arabeske in C
8:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 19 in F
9:00 a.m. Bach: Toccata in E Minor
11:00 a.m. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

14 Sunday
7:00 a.m. Bach: Prelude and Fugue no. 1 in C from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
11:00 a.m. Granados: Poetic Waltzes
12:00 p.m. Dvo?ák: "Songs My Mother Taught Me"
1:00 p.m. Chopin: Piano Sonata no. 2 in B-flat Minor
2:00 p.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 21 in C
3:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp Minor (Moonlight)
4:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 2 in C Minor

Also the Saturday Evening Request Program enables listeners to add their favorite composers and performers to the playlist.
http://theclassicalstation.org/features_request.shtml is the link to the SERP request page.

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