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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



hour 1

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2
    Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy
  • Vittorio Monti
    "Csardas"
    Violinist Maxim Vengerov with Virtuosi and pianist Vag Papian
    Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
  • 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
  • Stephen Reynolds
    "Chanson d'Automne" from "Two Poems in Homage to Faure"
    Pianist Stephen Hough
  • 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

hour 2

  • Kenneth Frazelle
    "Fiddler's Galaxy"
    Violinist Joseph Swensen and pianist Jeffrey Kahane
    Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
  • Leonard Bernstein
    Overture to "Candide"
    The Curtis Symphony Orchestra with conductor Christoph Eschenbach
    Kimmel Center, Philadelphia
  • 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
  • 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
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