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.
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Mikhail Glinka
Minuet from String Quartet in F
The Shostakovich Quartet
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Robert Jones
I Come, Sweet Birds
Piffaro
Town Hall, Seattle
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Dave Brubeck
Strange Meadowlark
Quartet San Francisco
Green Music Festival, Rohnert Park, California
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 (Unfinished)
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor
Prinzregenten Theater, Munich, Germany
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Mikhail Glinka
The Lark
Alexander Ghindin, piano
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
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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
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Peter Tchaikovsky
Danse Russe, from Swan Lake, Op. 20
Joshua Bell, violin, the Berlin Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
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Rafael Bonavita
Jacaras
Rafael Bonavita, guitar
Cultural and Congress Center, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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Federico Mompou
Prelude No. 8, and Song and Dance No. 6
Yukiko Akagi, piano
Palau Maricel, Sitges, Spain
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Enrique Granados
First movement from Tonadillas
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Academic Hall, Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Vatican City
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Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E
Joshua Bell, violin, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
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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