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May 16, 2008

Lise de la salle plays saint-saens

She may be just turning 20 this year, but French pianist Lise de la Salle has skill and interpretive depth far beyond her years. We'll hear her in concert in Metz, France, performing Camille Saint-Saens' Second Piano Concerto with conductor Jack Martin Handler and the Luxembourg European Soloists.

Today's Playlist



hour 1

  • Vittorio Monti
    Csardas
    Violinist Josef Sakonov with the London Festival Orchestra
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Quartet for Flute, Viola, Cello and Piano, Wq 94
    Flutist Lorna McGhee, violist David Harding, cellist David Hardy and pianist Katherine Collier
    Strings in the Mountains, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  • Johannes Brahms
    Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 2, 7 and 5 for Piano, Four Hands
    Pianists Jeremy Denk and Benjamin Hochman
    Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Bridgehampton, New York
  • Camille Saint-Saens
    Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22
    Pianist Lise de la Salle with the Luxembourg European Soloists and conductor Jack Martin Handler
    Arsenal Hall, Metz, France

hour 2

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
    "A Scene at a Fair" from Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33, No. 7, and "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" from Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 6
    The San Diego Symphony Orchestra with conductor Yoav Talmi
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Contrapunctus No. 9
    The New Century Saxophone Quartet
    Kaul Auditorium, Portland, Oregon
  • Joseph Haydn
    Symphony No. 30 in C, Hob I/30 ("Alleluia")
    The Aspen Chamber Symphony with conductor Nicholas McGegan
    Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Third movement from Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
    Orquestra de Sao Paulo with conductor John Neschling
    Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Second movement from Piano Concerto "No. 5"
    Pianist Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy with the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Theodore Kuchar
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