April 1, 2011
Beethoven lost then found
Music scholars have just confirmed what they hoped was true: a 200 year-old nightshirt recently found in a closet in Vienna did indeed belong to Beethoven. The historical significance is not in the cloth, though, but in the musical sketch inked on the sleeve. Pianist Stephen Hough breathes life into this newly discovered Beethoven melody on Today's Performance Today.
Today's Playlist
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 63
The Beethoven Project Trio (Sang Mee Lee, violin, Wendy Warner, cello, Geroge Lepauw, piano)
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Egberto Gismonti
Sete Aneis (arr. Joao Luiz)
Joao Luiz, guitar, Douglas Lora, guitar
Virginia Arts Festival, Chrysler Museum Theater, Norfolk, Virginia
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Antonio Carlos Jobim
Inutil Paisagem, arranged for bassoon and piano
Martin Kuuskmann, bassoon, Kristjan Randalu, piano
Blackheads House, Tallinn, Estonia
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Second movement from Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111
Stephen Hough, piano
Henry Wood Hall, London, England
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Fantasia, Op. 80, "Choral Fantasy"
Louis Lortie, piano, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Kurt Masur, conductor, Ragnar Bohlin, director
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA
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Eugene Ysaye
Reve d'enfant, Op. 14
Midori Goto, violin, Robert McDonald, piano
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Ole Bull
Folksong improvisation on 'La melancholie'
Berit Opheim, vocals
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Ole Bull
I ensomme stunde, from 'La melancholie'
Arve Tellefsen, violin, Sveinung Bjelland, piano
Bergen International Festival, Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
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Ole Bull
Cantabile Doloroso and Rondo Giocoso
Eldjorg Hemsing, violin, Sveinung Bjelland, piano
Bergen International Festival, Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
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Nico Muhly
Excerpts from "Movements II and III from Detailed Instructions"
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Peter Norton Symphony Space, New York, NY
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Ernest Bloch
Violin Sonata No. 2 "Poem mystique"
Midori Goto, violin, Ozgur Aydin, piano
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Theatre, Itzehoe, Germany