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February 1, 2011
Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances
Sergei Rachmaninoff's creative output can serve as a reminder never to give up. He wrote dozens and dozens of great works as a young man. In the last 25 years of his life, only a handful. He thought his composing days were over. But his very last work turned out to be one of the greatest he ever wrote. We'll hear Rachmaninoff's swan song, his Symphonic Dances, from a concert in Paris.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Strings in F, RV 141
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer, conductor
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Modest Mussorgsky
Prelude to Khovanshchina (Dawn over the Moscow River)
The Texas Festival Orchestra, Edwin Outwater, conductor
International Festival-Institute at Round Top, Round Top, Texas
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Frederic Chopin
Etude, Op. 10, No. 3
Louis Lortie, piano
Grand Theatre, Quebec City, Quebec
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Antonio Vivaldi
Four Violin Concertos, Op. 4 (from La Stravaganza)
Andres Cardenes, violin and conductor, the Strings Festival Orchestra
Strings Music Festival, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
hour 2
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Francis Poulenc
Three Dances from the Marriage on the Eiffel Tower
The French National Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, conductor
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Carlos Paredes
Song of Love
The Atlantico Ensemble
Sofia Music Weeks International Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances
The French National Orchestra, Kristjan Jarvi, conductor
Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France
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Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde
Vestiva i Colli
Sacabuche
Auer Hall, Bloomington, Indiana
