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March 1, 2012
Looking Back
In today's show, two composers who looked back to earlier forms and came up with startlingly different interpretations. Sergei Rachmaninoff (pictured) took a complicated little violin melody by Paganini and turned it into a triumphant Romantic barnburner for piano and orchestra. And Maurice Ravel saw the unraveling of European society in the form of the Viennese waltz. We'll hear Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini" and Maurice Ravel's "La Valse."
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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William Perry
The Long Winters, from Jamestown Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Yehuda Hanani, cello, the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins, conductor
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Antonio Soler y Ramos
Sonata No. 84 in D
Luis Fernando Perez, piano
Parish Church, Santa Cristina d'Aro, Spain
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Gentil Montana
Porro
Sharon Isbin and Cameron O'Connor, guitars
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
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Steve Reich
Vermont Counterpoint
Claire Chase, flute
The Menil Collection, Houston
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43
Freddy Kempf, piano, the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Alan Buribayev, conductor
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
hour 2
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Overture, from Orchestral Suite from Platee
The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, conductor
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Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, David Robertson, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata No. 44
The Ancia Saxophone Quartet
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Minneapolis
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Gavotte and Variations
The Brasil Guitar Duo
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
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Jean-Fery Rebel
Les Caracteres de la Danse
Tempesta di Mare
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
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Maurice Ravel
La Valse
The North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, John Axelrod, conductor
Grand Studio, Hanover, Germany
