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October 20, 2009
Making sense of the music
Pianist Maurizio Pollini says it's his job as a performer to "make the sense clear: the necessity of the notes." Not just to get the notes right or even just to make them expressive or beautiful. He says he has to convince the listener of the rightness of what the composer wrote, so that it sounds as if no other notes could possibly follow. We think Pollini does a convincing job on Mozart's Piano Concerto Number 12, in a performance with the Vienna Philharmonic.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Giuseppe Verdi
"Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves: Va pensiero" from "Nabucco"
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with conductor Sir Georg Solti
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Rafael Mendez
"Gallito"
Trumpeters Ronald Romm, Allan Dean and David Hickman with the Summit Brass
Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver
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Richard Strauss
"Fanfare for the City of Vienna"
The Summit Brass
Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver
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Ronn McFarlane
"Pinetops"
Ronn McFarlane, lute; Mark Cudek, cittern; and James Blachy, bass
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Ronn McFarlane
"Dowland's Goodnight"
Lutenist Ronn McFarlane
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Ronn McFarlane
Gigue
Lutenist Ronn McFarlane
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Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90 ("Italian")
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sir Georg Solti
Orchestra Hall, Chicago
hour 2
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Felix Blumenfeld
Etude for the Left Hand Alone, Op. 36
Pianist Michael Ponti
Newport Music Festival, Newport, Rhode Island
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Sir Edward Elgar
Third movement from Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82, and "Salut d'Amore," Op. 12
Violinist Nai-Yuan Hu and pianist John Lenehan
Newport Music Festival, Newport, Rhode Island
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K. 414
Pianist and conductor Maurizio Pollini with the Vienna Philharmonic
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
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Enrique Granados
"El mirar de la Maja" ("The Gaze of the Maja")
Mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and pianist Steven Blier
Caramoor International Music Festival, Katonah, New York
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Enrique Granados
Fourth movement from Trio for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 50, H. 140
Violinist Jennifer Frautschi, cellist Jiri Barta and pianist Daniel del Pino
Newport Music Festival, Newport, Rhode Island
