Now Hear This

- Season 2

(2020)

Star violinist and conductor Scott Yoo explores the musical legacy of Haydn. His special guest is Geoff Nuttall from Charleston, South Carolina, a leading expert on Haydn. He contends that Haydn singularly invented the string quartet as a result of needing to provide so much music for the wealthy Esterházy family, his patrons throughout his life. He was also responsible for establishing the symphonic form. Much of this time he was at their remote palace in Hungary. Haydn was an early adopter of folk music idioms into his works. There is, in fact, some contention over ...

Franz Schubert wrote 1,500 works, but his genius wasn't recognized till after his tragic death at 31. Scott Yoo goes to today's musical capitals to meet tomorrow's most promising artists, all Schubert's age during his career--to play Schubert's masterpieces, understand his life through the eyes of his 'peers,' and learn what it takes for a young classical artist to make it in the 21st century.

Scott Yoo invites Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear to emulate Mozart's unbelievable talent to simultaneously perform a piano concerto, including improvised credenzas, and conduct the orchestra. No other living pianist has attempted this feat. The event is planned for the Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, California, a venue in which Yoo conducts every summer. The focus of the exercise is Concerto No. 20 for piano and orchestra that was premiered February 10, 1785. The concertos were designed to help market Mozart's musical talents during 1784-86 in Vienna. Making ...

Go inside the mind of a genius as host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians undertake a recording of Beethoven's most personal music at a historic Berkshires manor to explore the composer's brilliant career where they are visited by some unexpected guests.