May 21, 2013

This month, soprano Deborah Voigt has been on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York singing the role of Brunhilde in Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. We asked Voigt what Wagner's music means to her as a singer. Her first answer was "LONG," but her second answer showed how she really feels. "You will constantly discover things in Wagner's music that you didn't hear" the first or even fifth time, she said. "It's just so rich." Deborah Voigt talks about the composer who is about to celebrate his 200th anniversary on Tuesday's Performance Today.

Today's Playlist

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hour 1

Gabriel Faure
Souvenirs of Bayreuth (for piano 4-hands)
Jean-Philippe Collard, Bruno Rigutto, piano
Tan Dun
Eight Memories in Watercolor - Staccato Beans, Floating Clouds, Sunrain
Manuel Barrueco, guitar; Meng Su, guitar; Yameng Wang, guitar
92nd Street Y, Theresa L. Kaufmann Concert Hall
Richard Wagner
Prelude and Liebestod, from Tristan und Isolde
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas
Jean Francaix
L'horloge de flore (The Flower Clock)
Joseph Robinson, Oboe; Bellingham Festival Orchestra; Michael Palmer, conductor
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, Bellingham, WA

hour 2

Jean Sibelius
Valse Triste, Op. 44, No. 1
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Claude Debussy, arr. Raaf Hekkema
Children's Corner, arranged for reed quintet
Calefax Reed Quintet - Oliver Boekhoorn, oboe; Ivar Berix, clarinet; Raaf Hekkema, saxophone; Jelte Althuis, bass clarinet; Alban Wesly, bassoon
Falany Performing Arts Center, Reinhardt University Waleska, GA
PT Young Artist-in-Residence
Timothy Kantor, violin
Bela Bartok
Sonata for Violin - I. Tempo di ciaccona
Timothy Kantor, violin
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN
Richard Wagner
Hojotoho from Die Walkure
Deborah Voigt, soprano; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Fabio Luisi, conductor
Richard Wagner
Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California

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