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May 28, 2010

PT From the Virginia Arts Festival

Performance Today comes to you from the Virginia Arts Festival today and Monday. The VAF is a six-week celebration of arts and culture centered in and around Norfolk, Virginia. Host Fred Child is there, broadcasting from the studios of WHRO in Williamsburg. On today's show, we'll hear a recent VAF performance by the Orion String Quartet, playing Beethoven and Bach.

Today's Playlist

Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.

hour 1

  • Antonin Dvorak
    Scherzo from Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81
    The Orion String Quartet, Peter Serkin, piano
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
    Finale from Whimsical Symphony
    Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell, conductor and harpsichord
    St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    March from Music for Children, Op. 65
    Gautier Capucon, cello
    Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat, Op. 74 (The Harp)
    The Orion String Quartet
    Virginia Arts Festival, Hampton, Virginia
  • Georges Bizet
    Intermezzo from Carmen
    Debra Wendells Cross, flute, Robert Alemany, clarinet, JoAnn Falletta, guitar
    Virginia Arts Festival, Gloucester, Virginia
  • Antonin Dvorak
    Nocturne in B, Op. 40
    The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ivan Fischer, conductor
    Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

hour 2

  • Ottorino Respighi
    Butantan, from Brazilian Impressions
    The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Contrapunctus No. 1, from Art of the Fugue
    The Orion String Quartet
    Virginia Arts Festival, Hampton, Virginia
  • Antonio Soler
    Keyboard Sonata No. 88 in D-flat
    Davide Cabassi, piano
    Stelio Molo Auditorium, Lugano, Switzerland
  • Traditional
    The Water is Wide
    Andreas Scholl, countertenor, Edin Karamazov, lute
    City Hall, Wroclaw, Poland
  • Traditional (Arranged by Frank Ticheli)
    Shenandoah
    The Dallas Wind Symphony, Frank Ticheli, conductor
    Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
  • Alec Wilder
    Fourth movement from Woodwind Quintet No. 2
    Members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
    The Music Room, St. Paul
  • Kenneth Fuchs
    An American Place
    The Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
    Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York
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