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April 18, 2011

Beethoven 5 like you've never heard it before

Those opening four notes. They're so familiar that they're almost a cliche. How many times have we heard them and thought, oh, that again? We've heard it so many times before. In today's show, we'll hear Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 like never before, in a spectacular performance by the Dresden Staatskapelle. Plus, the do-it-yourself success story of American Pianist Simone Dinnerstein. She plays a Bach suite from a concert in Berlin.

Today's Playlist

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hour 1

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Overture to Cosi Fan Tutte, K. 588
    The Dresden Staatskapelle, Hans Vonk, conductor
  • Traditional (Arranged by Tone Krohn)
    Till, Till Tove
    Trio Mediaeval
    La Folia. Early Music Festival, Rougemont, Switzerland
  • Tradtional (Arranged by Birger Mistereggen)
    Sordolen
    Birger Mistereggen and Torunn Ostrem Ossum, mouth harps
    La Folia. Early Music Festival, Rougemont, Switzerland
  • Maurice Ravel
    Second movement from String Quartet
    The Parker Quartet
    Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
    The Dresden Staatskapelle, Paavo Jarvi, conductor
    Semperoper, Dresden, Germany

hour 2

  • Philip Lasser
    Excerpts from Twelve Variations on a Chorale by J.S. Bach
    Simone Dinnerstein, piano
  • Matteo da Perugia
    Andrey Soulet, Canon for Three Voices
    Millenarium
    Early Music Days, Herne, Germany
  • Johannes Brahms
    First movement from Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in G, Op. 78
    Christian Tetzlaff, violin, Lars Vogt, piano
    Heimbach Chamber Music Festival, Heimbach, Germany
  • Carl Maria von Weber
    Overture to Oberon
    The Munich Philharmonic, James Levine, conductor
    Philharmonie, Munich, Germany
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    French Suite No. 5 in G, BWV 816
    Simone Dinnerstein, piano
    Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
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