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January 8, 2013
Also Sprach Zarathustra
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." Those opening lines from Dickens'"A Tale of Two Cities" are burned into almost everyone's consciousness. But what about the rest of the book? Who can quote that? In today's show, we'll have another great opening line, the sunrise from "Also Sprach Zarathustra." Everyone knows it from the film "2001: A Space Odyssey." Plus, we'll hear the part no one remembers. Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the complete half-hour tone poem by Richard Strauss.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Edvard Grieg
From Early Years, from Six Lyric Pieces, Op. 65
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
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Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Sacro Tempio d'honor
The American Brass Quintet
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
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Edvard Grieg
Norwegian Peasant March, from Lyric Pieces, Op. 54, No. 2
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Fraser Performance Studio, Boston
hour 2
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Francois Couperin
Mysterious Barricades and La commere, from Sixieme Ordre (2nd Book, Pieces de Clavecin)
Angela Hewitt, piano
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Maurice Ravel
Second movement from Piano Trio in A Minor
The Morgenstern Trio
Kunstraum Klosterkirche, Traunstein, Germany
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Jean Francaix
Petit Quatuor pour Saxophones
The Accademia Saxophone Quartet
Sergei Luchevici National Philharmonic, Chisinau, Moldova
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Olivier Messiaen
La Colombe (the Dove), from Preludes
Jan Lisiecki, piano
Wellspring Theater, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Francois Couperin
La Piemontoise, from Les Nations
Les Ombres
Capucine Church, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Jean Mouton
Nesciens Mater
Chanticleer
Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford, California
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Claude Debussy
Sarabande from Pour le Piano
The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
Cite de la Musique, Paris, France
