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May 10, 2011
Opposites Attract in Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto
It's hard to think of two more opposite characters in classical music than Dmitri Shostakovich and Martha Argerich. Argerich, the idiosyncratic free spirit, who says what she thinks and does what she wants. And Shostakovich, whose career and even his life depended on him toeing the Soviet party line. These opposites team up in today's show, as Martha Argerich performs Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto from the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Fuga Elegiaca
The Brasil Guitar Duo
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto No. 1 in C Minor for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings, Op. 35
Martha Argerich, piano, David Guerrier, trumpet, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor
Verbier Festival, Verbier, Switzerland
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Johann Sebastian Bach
French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814
The Brasil Guitar Duo
Virginia Arts Festival, Norfolk, Virginia
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Maurice Ravel
The Valley of the Bells, from Miroirs
Ning Zhou, piano
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas
hour 2
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Village Dance, from Suite Pastorale
The Vienna Philharmonic, John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
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Johann Adolf Hasse
Sinfonia from Lucio Papirio
Tempesta di Mare
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
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Johannes Brahms
Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38
Sebastian Baverstam, cello, Constantine Finehouse, piano
Sean Swinney Recording Studio, New York City
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Robert Schumann
Traumerei (Dreaming), from Scenes from Childhood
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most, conductor
Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria
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Otto Nicolai
Moonrise Chorus, from the Merry Wives of Windsor
The Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most, conductor
Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria
