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April 27, 2012
Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang is known for her daring confidence and skill at the piano and for her adventurous taste in clothes, but at a recent concert in San Francisco, she took a different kind of risk: playing with a duet partner. The remarkable young Chinese pianist was in town to solo with the orchestra. And, as a fun way to open the concert, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas came out with her at the beginning of the evening. They shared a piano bench to play the Sonata for Piano Four Hands, by Francis Poulenc.
Today's Playlist
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hour 1
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Francis Poulenc
Coda, from Villageoises (The Villagers) Piano Pieces for Children
Olivier Cazal, piano
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Modest Mussorgsky
Prelude to Khovanshchina
The Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Philharmonie, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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Igor Stravinsky
Eight Instrumental Miniatures for Fifteen Players
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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Alexander Scriabin
Six Preludes, Op. 13
Ivan Moshchuk, piano
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Benjamin Britten
Fugue in E-flat, Op. 81, No. 4
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Stefan Asbury, conductor
Ordway Center, St. Paul
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Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Piano Four Hands
Yuja Wang and Michael Tilson Thomas, piano
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
hour 2
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David Conte
Charm Me Asleep
Chanticleer
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Tarquinio Merula
Ballo detto Eccardo and Ciaccona, from Canzoni ovvero Sonate Concertat, Libro III
Quicksilver
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston
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Reynaldo Hahn
To Chloris
Albrecht Mayer, oboe, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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Erika Lloyd
Cells Planets
Chanticleer
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Hector Berlioz
Excerpts from Les Troyens (The Trojans)
The Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Christian Zacharias, conductor
Metropole Hall, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Robert Schumann
Arabesque in C, Op. 18
Christian Zacharias, piano
Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Warsaw, Poland
