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March 3, 2011
Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
Ever since Dmitri Shostakovich premiered his fifth symphony in 1937, critics and musicians have been arguing over what it means. The work is powerful; no one disputes that. But is it power that defies authority, or celebrates it? That's the sticking point. You can hear the final two movements on today's show and decide for yourself. Yuri Temirkanov leads the St. Petersburg Philharmonic of Russia, in concert in Birmingham, England.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dances No. 3 in F and No. 10 in F
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Canonic Adagio in F for Three Basset Horns, K. 410
Jane Booth, Guy Cowley, and Antony Pay, basset horns
Coolidge Auditorium, Washington D.C.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet in F for Oboe and Strings, K. 370
Allan Vogel, oboe, Cho-Liang Lin, violin, Michael Tree, viola, Alisa Weilerstein, cello
La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, La Jolla, California
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Anonymous (Arranged by Oliver Boekhoorn)
Suite from Llibre Vermell
The Calefax Reed Quintet
Wigmore Hall, London, England
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Gustav Mahler (Arranged by Colin Matthews)
First movement from Piano Quartet
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lothar Zagrosek, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
hour 2
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Introduction, theme and seven variations from "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini"
Pianist Dmitri Alexeev with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Yuri Temirkanov
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Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Three Fugues from "The Well-Tempered Klavier" for String Quartet, K. 405
The Orion String Quartet
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
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Anonymous
"A New Tune"
The Palladian Ensemble
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Third and fourth movements from Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47
The St. Petersburg Philharmonic with conductor Yuri Temirkanov
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Rondino in E-flat for wind octet, WoO. 25
The Chicago Chamber Musicians
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois
