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June 1, 2010

Schubert's Unfinished

Most of us have any number of unfinished projects around the house or at work. Empty photo albums, unwritten family histories, that pile of junk mail on the desk. Before you tackle any of it, tune into today's show and hear Franz Schubert's most famous loose end. Lorin Maazel leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony, from a recent concert in Munich. Plus, Joshua Bell performs the Mendelssohn violin concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Today's Playlist

Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.

hour 1

  • Mikhail Glinka
    Minuet from String Quartet in F
    The Shostakovich Quartet
  • Robert Jones
    I Come, Sweet Birds
    Piffaro
    Town Hall, Seattle
  • Dave Brubeck
    Strange Meadowlark
    Quartet San Francisco
    Green Music Festival, Rohnert Park, California
  • Franz Schubert
    Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 (Unfinished)
    The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor
    Prinzregenten Theater, Munich, Germany
  • Mikhail Glinka
    The Lark
    Alexander Ghindin, piano
    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
  • Richard Strauss
    Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments in E-flat, Op. 7
    Members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart, conductor
    The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

hour 2

  • Peter Tchaikovsky
    Danse Russe, from Swan Lake, Op. 20
    Joshua Bell, violin, the Berlin Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
  • Rafael Bonavita
    Jacaras
    Rafael Bonavita, guitar
    Cultural and Congress Center, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
  • Federico Mompou
    Prelude No. 8, and Song and Dance No. 6
    Yukiko Akagi, piano
    Palau Maricel, Sitges, Spain
  • Enrique Granados
    First movement from Tonadillas
    Stefano Grondona, guitar
    Academic Hall, Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Vatican City
  • Felix Mendelssohn
    Violin Concerto in E
    Joshua Bell, violin, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
    Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Second movement from Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056
    Maria Joao Pires, piano, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ivan Fischer, conductor
    The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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