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Weekend of May 14, 2011
Daphnis and Chloe
It's an ancient, simple story of boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy loses girl when she is abducted by pirates. Boy gets girl back, thanks to the intervention of a deity who is half-man and half-goat. OK, maybe the story of Daphnis and Chloe isn't so simple after all. But boy and girl live happily ever after in Maurice Ravel's ravishing, shimmering coming-of-age love story. The Montreal Symphony plays Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2, from a concert in Montreal.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Georges Bizet
Danse Boheme, from Carmen
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, conductor
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Enrique Granados
Intermedio, from Goyescas
The Mexican State Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Batiz, conductor
Granada International Music Festival, Granada, Spain
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Claude Debussy
Estampes, from Gardens in the Rain
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Bohuslav Martinu
Excerpt from the Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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The Piano Puzzler
This week's contestant is Keith Weber from Houston
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Maurice Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Jacques Lacombe, conductor
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montreal, Quebec
hour 2
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Igor Stravinsky
Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Eduardo Mata, conductor
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
March in D, K. 445
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Christian Zacharias, conductor
Ordway Center, St. Paul
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Felix Mendelssohn
Song without Words in E, Op. 19b, No. 1 (Sweet Remembrance)
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
92nd Street Y, New York City
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
