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October 23, 2012
A Box Full of Possibilities
The piano is essentially a percussion instrument. You press a key, a hammer hits the corresponding string, and a note is produced. But is that all there is? There must be more to playing the piano than that. Today, we'll hear from three terrific pianists, Vladimir Feltsman, Nelson Freire, and Garrick Ohlsson. Ohlsson weighs in on the difficulties of the piano, calling it "a box full of diminuendos." But with those three in the driver's seat, we prefer to think of it as a box full of exquisite possibilities.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Manuel de Falla
Excerpts from Seven Popular Spanish Songs
Kim Kashkashian, viola, Robert Levin, piano
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George Frideric Handel
Entrance of Queen of Sheba, from Solomon
The Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra, Robert Manno, conductor
Windham Chamber Music Festival, Windham, New York
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Ferdinand Rebay
Six Variations on a Sarabande by George Frideric Handel
SoloDuo
St. John the Baptist Church, Ottawa, Ontario
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Alessandro Scarlatti
Fugue from Sonata in C
Tempesta di Mare
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397
Vladimir Feltsman, piano
Bass Hall, Fort Worth, Texas
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Manuel de Falla
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Nelson Freire, piano, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ivan Fischer, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
hour 2
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Astor Piazzolla
Adagio from Suite for Oboe and String Orchestra
Andres Spiller, oboe, the Camerata Bariloche Chamber Orchestra of Argentina
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Traditional Corsican
Maria
Barbara Furtuna and L'Arpeggiata
Zankel Hall, New York City
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Astor Piazzolla
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin and leader, the New Century Chamber Orchestra
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
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George Frideric Handel
Keyboard Suite in B-flat, Vol. 2, No. 1
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Strathmore Music Center, North Bethesda, Maryland
