July 21, 2008
A week of outstanding pianists
This week, "Performance Today" casts a spotlight on some excellent pianists. We'll start in Dallas, where Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninoff's seldom played Fourth Concerto with Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony. And then we'll go to St. Paul, where Stephen Kovacevich performs Beethoven's First Concerto with Joseph Swensen and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Today's Playlist
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2
Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Vittorio Monti
"Csardas"
Violinist Maxim Vengerov with Virtuosi and pianist Vag Papian
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40
Pianist Stephen Hough with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Litton
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
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Stephen Reynolds
"Chanson d'Automne" from "Two Poems in Homage to Faure"
Pianist Stephen Hough
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Felix Mendelssohn
Third and fourth movements from Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66
Violinist Renaud Capucon, cellist Gautier Capucon and pianist Nicholas Angelich
Lugano Festival, Lugano, Switzerland
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Kenneth Frazelle
"Fiddler's Galaxy"
Violinist Joseph Swensen and pianist Jeffrey Kahane
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Leonard Bernstein
Overture to "Candide"
The Curtis Symphony Orchestra with conductor Christoph Eschenbach
Kimmel Center, Philadelphia
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15
Pianist Stephen Kovacevich with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and conductor Joseph Swensen
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul
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Frederic Chopin
Transcription of Op. 10, No. 5, and Op. 25, No. 9, combined in G-flat ("Badinage"), and transcription of Op. 10, No. 11, and Op. 25, No. 3, combined in F
Pianist Boris Berezovsky
Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England