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June 28, 2012
Fame: Not Wanted
Most composers can't wait for more people to hear their music and to recognize their name. Not Nikolai Kapustin. He doesn't talk to press, but the 74-year-old composer has conveyed one message: he has no desire to be famous. Despite his wishes, he is rapidly becoming well-known as a classically trained composer who also fell in love with jazz. On Thursday's Performance Today we'll hear Kapustin's jazz-tinged Piano Sonata No. 2 performed by Alexei Volodin in concert in Switzerland.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Maurice Ravel
Jeux d'eau
Robert Casadesus, piano
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David Popper
Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano. Op. 66
Bion Tsang, David Ying, and Keiko Ying, cellos, Susan Grace, piano
Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Sergei Prokofiev
Two movements from Symphony No. 5 in B flat, Op. 100
The New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
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Maurice Ravel
Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. posth.
Daniel Hope, violin, Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia
hour 2
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Astor Piazzolla
Deciso, from Tango Suite
The Assad Brothers Guitar Duo
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Johann Friedrich Fasch
Sinfonia in G Minor, FWV M:g1
Tempesta di Mare
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
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Gabriel Faure
Sicilienne, Op. 78
Lara St. John, violin, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, harp
Lyon & Healy Hall, Chicago
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Sergio Assad
Tahhiyya li Oussoulina (Homage to Our Roots)
The Assad Brothers Guitar Duo
Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara, California
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Nikolai Kapustin
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 54
Alexei Volodin, piano
Alexei Volodin, piano
