Friendship has long been a wellspring for exalted music making, as this week's program with cellist Zuill Bailey and pianist Awadagin Pratt brilliantly attests.

The two first met off hours in a ping pong duel when they were teenaged participants in a music festival. In the years since, they’ve kept the association alive through frequent collaboration on the great works of their shared repertoire—music than opens new vistas for both of these remarkable soloists. On this edition of Saint Paul Sunday, they bring us sonatas by Debussy, Beethoven, and Brahms.

Music played in the program:

Claude-Achille Debussy: Sonata

     -I. Prologue

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69

     -III. Adagio cantabile / Allegro vivace

Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in e minor, Op. 38

     -I. Allegro non troppo

     -II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto

     -III. Allegro

For more information about this program, please visit the Saint Paul Sunday Web site.