October 20, 2011
Class Clown
Richard Strauss reached back to the Middle Ages to find a thoroughly modern character, the class clown. Till Eulenspiegel was a legendary German folk-hero who thumbed his nose at just about everybody. His antics got him in trouble with the authorities, and eventually earned him a one-way trip to the gallows. Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony play Strauss' rollicking tone poem, "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," in concert in Montreal.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu No.2 in E-flat, D. 899
Alfred Brendel, piano
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Astor Piazzolla
Escualo and Ausencias
Marina Piccinini, flute, the Brasil Guitar Duo
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
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Alberto Ginastera
Danzas Argentinas
The Windscape Wind Quintet
Manhattan School of Music, New York City
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Franz Liszt
Abendglocken (Evening Bells), S. 186, No. 9
Alfred Brendel, piano
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Franz Liszt
La Campanella (The Little Bell)
Serhiy Salov, piano
Places des Arts, Montreal, Quebec
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Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28, TRV 171
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano, conductor
Place des Arts, Montreal, Quebec
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Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt
Erlkonig (The Elf King)
Murray Perahia, piano
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
We Hymn Thee
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, director
Three Choirs Festival, Worcester, England
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John Dowland
The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, his Galliard, from Varietie of Lute-Lessons
Ariel Abramovich, lute
Barcelona Auditorium, Barcelona, Spain
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Franz Liszt
Comment Disaient-ils (What They Said)
Kathleen Battle, soprano, Margo Garrett, piano
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Franz Liszt
Sonetto del Petrarca No. 47, from Years of Pilgrimage, Second year: Italy, S. 161
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
92nd Street Y, New York City
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Franz Liszt
Consolation No. 3, S. 172, R. 12
Vesselin Stanev, piano
Stelio Molo Auditorium, Lugano, Switzerland
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Franz Liszt
Two Episodes from Lenau's Faust, S. 599, R. 325
The German Symphony Orchestra, Leo Hussain, conductor
Berlin Music Festival, Berlin, Germany